That is exactly why I thought it was fake.  Buddy (not much of a cigar smoker) went to the Dominican and bought a box of ten of these.  Asked me to if he could keep them in one of my humis for him.  I said sure automatically assuming they were fake.  Well 3 years later he hasn't smoked one of them and I found them the other day, realized the band was actually pretty similar and decided to end all the questions.   So here it is.  
