My mom uses a gardening community app which has users from around the world. According to her, many users across several continents/countries have been experien

My mom uses a gardening community app which has users from around the world. According to her, many users across several continents/countries have been experiencing this (North America, Europe, Australia, other parts of Asia). You receive a package in the mail which contains some small, low-value item (often seeds) that you definitely didn't order. Some of her friends on the app have apparently tried planting the seeds and have grown unexciting plants (eg tomatoes). But, for fear of unleashing an invasive species, don't do this. The prevailing hypothesis is that it has to do with spoofing reviews on some ecommerce platforms. The sellers can boost their apparent number of sales and give themselves fake reviews, but there is a customs verification step which requires them to verify for the platform that they actually sent out a package. So they create a fake package with something very cheap inside and mail it to a random address in the country of their choice. There have been a number of articles concerning it as well: for example, this one from Chicago -- https://abc7chicago.com/china-seeds-from-plant-in-mail/6338535/ https://abc7chicago.com/china-seeds-from-plant-in-mail/63385...