A tag advertisement, saying "2,000 yuan for a ear and 5,000 yuan for the nose of your foe", has recently caught the attention of many people, reports Beijing Star Daily.

Zhou and his wife came across such an ad at a bus stop. Spurred by curiosity, Zhou dialled the mobile phone number on the ad, but no one replied.

"I worried a lot about those ads, so I called the TV programme 'Special Focus' to see if such ads were for real or just a joke," Zhou said.

A reporter from Beijing Star Daily found similar ads around Hongyan Bridge in Chaoyang District where Zhou spotted them. Again, no one responded to the reporter's call.

Zhou believes that the tag ads could be overdone pranks but police may investigate the matter.

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