CHINESE MYSTERY SEEDS! #2020 People across the country and potentially around the world have been reporting receiving packages - apparently from China - of unknown seeds which they did not order. So I spent my evening researching this new phenomenon.
"Can anyone identify these seeds? Not even the Virginia department of agriculture and wildlife were able to identify. Apparently Theyve been sent to many random people around my state. Weird - https://i.redd.it/yme6g7x9x2d51.png"
More research shows that this story has popped up more or less overnight, seemingly organically all over the country, and perhaps in the UK as well. Obviously a little odd.
I did find more than one comment though that said some variation of the following:
"This is called Brushing. It's a scam other countries run by sending out near worthless items so they can pad their store ratings/make it look like they have more orders than they do."
"Some businesses run a scam online where they set up fake accounts with real addresses to buy incredibly cheap things and then just ship them and give their business a 5 star rating, increasing the likelihood of someone buying from their shop."
"A few months ago I got a tiny candle in the mail from china. My daughter received some cheap electronics, like a car fan, and usb c extension cable, and tv antenna. all of these were unsolicited. I suspect it is possibly tied to some fulfillment business that has to show they shipped something to get their money."
So as of right now, that's where my money is. However, I am also highly suspicious of the coordinated release of this story, again all across the country and it's looking like in other countries as well. Something definitely seems at least a bit fishy about this, and I will certainly be keeping my eyes open.
I will add one last thing though, which is that in one of the most commonly posted photos, supposedly from the Washington State Dept of Agriculture, the so-called mystery seeds are lemon seeds. I know because I have grown plenty of them myself.
26 comments
45 JRaz000 2020-07-25
Grind them up, add alcohol and insert rectally. It's almost like people hate having fun or something. Thank you China, please send seeds to me next.
33 Amour_cok 2020-07-25
sent them to the CHAZ garden
32 ballrot 2020-07-25
Zoomers won't remember white power envelopes
Somebody remind me what happened after they started finding those
Edit: *powder
36 GeminiRocket 2020-07-25
I didn't get my white power 🤜 envelope 👀
29 pandeyji_ka_ladka 2020-07-25
you're not a grand wizard, harry
7 zhcyiDnein 2020-07-25
Besides covid, anthrax is the only other thing I remember getting people obsessive about N95 masks.
3 CriticalAttempt2 2020-07-25
You’re glowing
22 EarlCampbellsMeat 2020-07-25
Wouldn't it be more effective and just a bit more low key to have a guy go john li appleseed across the country with this shit?
12 Pokanot 2020-07-25
Already there is debate if they can grow toxic airborne plants that are genetically modified or something.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Virginia/comments/hx72d5/officials_virginia_residents_should_report_any/
50 TrailerParkRide 2020-07-25
They're going to grow little Chinaman homunculi that will swarm and invade the nation's capital
19 FistfullOfCrows 2020-07-25
Didn't know the Chinese have top-secret jew tech.
9 throwaway_at_ 2020-07-25
West Virgina is close enough if you wanna count that?
6 Qwagsoir 2020-07-25
They need homunculi for that?
12 AOC_Gynecologist 2020-07-25
"Suspicious quotation marks"
6 -Acceptable-Risk- 2020-07-25
London got hit first)
3 somestupidname1 2020-07-25
Someone send me theirs and I'll plant them and report back in a few weeks.
2 SquarePeg37 2020-07-25
CHINESE MYSTERY SEEDS! #2020 People across the country and potentially around the world have been reporting receiving packages - apparently from China - of unknown seeds which they did not order. So I spent my evening researching this new phenomenon.
"Can anyone identify these seeds? Not even the Virginia department of agriculture and wildlife were able to identify. Apparently Theyve been sent to many random people around my state. Weird - https://i.redd.it/yme6g7x9x2d51.png"
"Americans Receiving Unsolicited Mailings of Seeds from China - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-seed-mailings"
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/utah-department-of-agriculture-investigates-mysterious-seeds-sent-from-china-to-tooele
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nation-world/national/article244479272.html
More research shows that this story has popped up more or less overnight, seemingly organically all over the country, and perhaps in the UK as well. Obviously a little odd.
I did find more than one comment though that said some variation of the following:
"This is called Brushing. It's a scam other countries run by sending out near worthless items so they can pad their store ratings/make it look like they have more orders than they do."
"Some businesses run a scam online where they set up fake accounts with real addresses to buy incredibly cheap things and then just ship them and give their business a 5 star rating, increasing the likelihood of someone buying from their shop."
"A few months ago I got a tiny candle in the mail from china. My daughter received some cheap electronics, like a car fan, and usb c extension cable, and tv antenna. all of these were unsolicited. I suspect it is possibly tied to some fulfillment business that has to show they shipped something to get their money."
So as of right now, that's where my money is. However, I am also highly suspicious of the coordinated release of this story, again all across the country and it's looking like in other countries as well. Something definitely seems at least a bit fishy about this, and I will certainly be keeping my eyes open.
I will add one last thing though, which is that in one of the most commonly posted photos, supposedly from the Washington State Dept of Agriculture, the so-called mystery seeds are lemon seeds. I know because I have grown plenty of them myself.
1 LongPostBot 2020-07-25
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