Identity Facts

A Brazilian man named Xiahn Nishi, formerly known as Max, was so fascinated by Korean culture after studying abroad in South Korea that he underwent 10 plastic surgery procedures costing around $31,000 to make his appearance more Asian.

In 1997, a 23-year-old French con artist convinced a Texas family he was their missing teenage son — despite having brown eyes instead of blue, a heavy French accent, and being a completely different person. He lived with them for months before a private investigator uncovered the truth.

Kyle Adler was stolen from his mother in Chile as a baby and raised in America under a false name. A DNA test through MyHeritage matched him to Ana Maria Navarrete in Santiago. On Valentine's Day 2026, he walked off a plane in Chile - and she was waiting. She had spent 35 years looking for him.