Meters measure collector current for some collector voltage and base current. If there's an erroneous sink of "collector" current at that voltage, it'll look like hFE is huge. Which, isn't wrong...
I don't know of any that have higher inverted hFE, but some do have very useful hFE: purpose-made "muting" transistors (higher Vebo, inverted hFE over 100 usually, and specified in terms of Rce(on) -- used much like JFETs for analog switching, but with base current rather than gate voltage), and low-Vce(sat) [power] switching transistors, which are not specified for inverted operation (and have ordinary Vebo), but are often rated in terms of Rce(on), and typically have quite high inverted hFE (presumably, a consequence of their low Vce(sat), because saturation isn't a one-sided thing, it's symmetrical around zero and to do well in one direction, it should do ~equally well the other way too).
Tim