killerloanapps · live: India · Sri Lanka · historical: India · Nigeria · deleted · methodology
Buddy Loan: Instant Personal Loan, Deals & Rewards [India] lending
18 low (partial) · installs 100,000+ · rating 4.505736 (64783) · updated 1607785085000
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 | 36/100 |
| I7 I7 | w=? |
Triggered signals
- none
Paperwork
| Developer | Bvalue+Services+Pvt.+Ltd. |
| Legal entity | — |
| Legal email | — |
| Legal address | — |
| Legal phone | — |
| Developer email | it@buddyloan.in |
| Website | https://www.buddyloan.in/ |
| Privacy policy | https://www.buddyloan.in/privacy-policy.php |
| Released | — |
| Version | 10.0.0 |
| Play listing | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buddyloan.vls&hl=en&gl=us |
Permissions (14 total, 10 dangerous)
- Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
- Location: approximate location (network-based)
- Location: precise location (GPS and network-based)
- Other: full network access
- Other: view network connections
- 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
Full permission list in the dataset repo. Permissions captured at harvest time; apps update silently.