Can a new NTSC PS3 Game come with a PlayStation tear strip

[master_hayabusa]

I am interested in buying some brand new sealed PS3 games of a vendor who has a whole bunch. All games seemed legit until I noticed an ESBR rated NTSC game (King of fighters XII) with a 'PLAYSTATION' tear strip encircling the game case. I thought these strips were only exclusive to PAL PS games? Really confused. Looked for the same game on Ebay, new & sealed and again only the PAL versions have tear strip, all the American ones (T for teen) have no strip.

Is he selling me a resealed game? Is this even a thing fake tear strips?

first one is a PAL game listed online

Second one is a NTSC game listed online

Third one is the game from the vendor (suspect)