Welcome, @RTurk.1, to the community!
As mentioned in the datasheet of the STM8S208, the Unique ID is definitely unique and cannot be changed afterwards. So if you have read the UID on address 0x48CD...0x43D8 correctly and the value is identical for all STM8S208, it is probably fakes.
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/Peter
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