i can order a couple thousand of legit ones from Arrow -- Renesas branded, which should be identical to the NEc part. though they tried and tried, they were unable to ever tell me the HFe grade of the part.
this is just less $$. they test good for 700V, they have HFe in the proper range, so, i have no reason to believe these are fake. my concern would be that the picture they send me doesnt look exactly like the 200 that they shipped to me.
Could someone fake a transistor and still have 700V and proper HFe? i guess its possible. i'll see if KG can do some further testing