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Hero Digital Lending & UPI App [India] lending
19 low (partial) · installs 1,000,000+ · rating 4.2410455 (10236) · updated 1788346424000
Corpus: India live · harvested 2026-09-21
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=? | 0/100 |
| I4 I4 | w=? | 0/100 |
| I5 I5 | w=? | |
| I6 Permission excess | w=15 | 100/100 |
| I7 I7 | w=? |
Triggered signals
- none
Paperwork
| Developer | Hero FinCorp Limited |
| Legal entity | HERO FINCORP LIMITED |
| Legal email | akash.deep@herofincorp.com |
| Legal address | 09, Community Centre, Basant Lok,, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi 110057, India |
| Legal phone | +91 78279 45848 |
| Developer email | customer.care@HeroFinCorp.com |
| Website | https://www.herofincorp.com/ |
| Privacy policy | https://www.herofincorp.com/data-privacy-policy |
| Released | Jan 8, 2025 |
| Version | 2.0.227 |
| Play listing | — |
Permissions (19 total, 10 dangerous)
- Device & app history: approximate location (network-based)
- Device & app history: precise location (GPS and network-based)
- Device & app history: read phone status and identity
- Device & app history: read your contacts
- Device & app history: read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
- Device & app history: receive text messages (SMS)
- Device & app history: send SMS messages
- Other: change network connectivity
- Other: full network access
- Other: view network connections
Full permission list in the dataset repo. Permissions captured at harvest time; apps update silently.