killerloanapps · live: India · Sri Lanka · historical: India · Nigeria · deleted · methodology
Instant & Paperless Personal Loan App. No docs [India] lending
32 elevated (partial) · installs 10,000,000+ · rating 3.7447033 (547487) · updated 1609164904000
Corpus: India historical · harvested 2022-02-27
Risk signals, not verdicts. Scores flag indicators of abusive-lending behaviour from public app-store data. A high score is not proof of illegality; a low score is not a safety certificate. See methodology.
Score breakdown (rubric 0.2)
| Indicator family | Weight | Score |
|---|---|---|
| I1 Brand & ASO abuse | w=15 | 0/100 |
| I2 I2 | w=? | 0/100 |
| I3 I3 | w=? | |
| I4 I4 | w=? | 60/100 |
| I5 I5 | w=? | |
| I6 Permission excess | w=15 | 100/100 |
| I7 I7 | w=? |
Triggered signals
- none
Paperwork
| Developer | True+Balance+-+Balance+Hero |
| Legal entity | — |
| Legal email | — |
| Legal address | — |
| Legal phone | — |
| Developer email | cs@balancehero.com |
| Website | http://truebalance.io/ |
| Privacy policy | http://truebalance.io/privacy-policy |
| Released | — |
| Version | 5.02.02 |
| Play listing | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.balancehero.truebalance&hl=en&gl=us |
Permissions (33 total, 25 dangerous)
- Calendar: add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
- Calendar: read calendar events plus confidential information
- Camera: take pictures and videos
- Contacts: find accounts on the device
- Contacts: modify your contacts
- Contacts: read your contacts
- Device & app history: retrieve running apps
- Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
- Identity: add or remove accounts
- Identity: find accounts on the device
- Location: approximate location (network-based)
- Location: precise location (GPS and network-based)
- Other: create accounts and set passwords
- Other: full network access
- Other: reorder running apps
- Other: use accounts on the device
- Other: view network connections
- Phone: directly call phone numbers
- Phone: read phone status and identity
- Photos/Media/Files: modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
- Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage
- Storage: modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
- Storage: read the contents of your USB storage
- read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
- receive text messages (SMS)
Full permission list in the dataset repo. Permissions captured at harvest time; apps update silently.