I always get offered a free cigar from someone who was on vacation or from someone who received a cigar from a friend, co-worker, in-law, etc..
I was mowing the lawn today and a neighbor came over and gave me these cigars. He said he wasn't a cigar smoker and received them from his father in-law who recently came back from Cuba. Immediately, I'm suspicious.
I could immediately tell that one of them was a fake...it has 4 dots above the Cohiba strip. The 2nd one (which came from the same box) only had 3 dots. Usually the biggest tip off is the gold "Cohiba" script which is either not gold enough and is flat and never raised. Well these cigars are both very gold and the script and surround is indeed raised. These are pretty good fake bands...probably the best I've seen. Now the "Habana, Cuba" script isn't bold enough IMO and the black around the dots isn't bold enough. Apart from that, a pretty convincing fake.
I think someone could be fooled by this band.