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Welcome To BotScout

BotScout helps prevent automated web scripts, known as "bots", from registering on forums, polluting databases, spreading spam, and abusing forms on web sites. We do this by tracking the names, IPs, and email addresses that bots use and logging them as unique signatures for future reference. We make this signature data available through a simple yet powerful API that you can use to test forms when they're submitted on your site.

Stop The Bots

You can manually search our bot database to find bots in your forums, but you can also use a little bit of code in your forum, contact form, or other web application to test for bots and automatically ban or reject them on the spot. To make use of our database in your application, all you need to do is query it correctly. You can also download a list of the most recently-caught bots (shown below) from this URL: http://botscout.com/last_caught_cache.htm.

If you need to do more than about ~1500 automated lookups a day you'll probably want to get a free API key so you can do as many as you need. We even provide some sample code that you can use in your forums, contact forms, mailing lists, and other parts of your site.

There are also anti-bot plugins available for popular forums and CMS applications, including SMF, VBulletin, phpBB, Phorum, PunBB, Invision Power Board, FUDForum, Ikonboard, W-Agora, Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal.

Who Uses BotScout?

People and companies all over the world rely on BotScout to help screen out bots, including:
  • University of Washington
  • University of Milan
  • Fibromyalgia.com
  • UC Berkley
  • Georgia Courts
  • UNC Machine Vision Lab
  • Discover Seattle!
  • Banca Popolare del Verona
  • AspergerPlanet
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • BME Cancer Communities
  • US Motorcycle Rally
  • Snitz Forums
  • University of Georgia
  • Marriott International
  • The Standard Bank of South Africa
  • University of Pittsburgh
    • and thousands more!

    We can provide secure form protection and bot-screening solutions for your group or organization too- please contact us to find out more!

    Want To Help?

    You can help make life harder for bots by using the BotScout plugin on your site, because the more bot signatures we collect the more effective our filters become. Although we collect large numbers of bot signatures through our "bot honeypots", we can't catch them all. To submit bot data, all you need to do is get an API key and use BotScout on your site(s).

    You can also put a BotScout logo, button, or badge on your site to help let other people know about BotScout.

    Click Here To Help Keep BotScout Running

    Most Recently Banned Bots - 14 Jul 2026 9:33 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,255
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    onetruecathal onetruecathal@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    michelesowerby michelesowerby@hotbird.giize.com 156.241.219.95
    bill bill@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    k0fkq k0fkq@goshop1888.shop 1.169.112.171
    jeff jeff@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    krobinson krobinson@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    pbogen pbogen@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    eden eden@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    mroseboom mroseboom@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    EmilHocking marytaylor5116c23m@c.pattaya-mega.com 66.63.183.108
    blynn blynn@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    jstevensen jstevensen@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    tshprecher tshprecher@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    bob bob@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    eyung eyung@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    authplatform authplatform@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    FinleySimas93 finleyfinley@tijuxa.supermail.space 45.133.113.88
    robin robin@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    xwei xwei@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    sritchie sritchie@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    gerry gerry@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    jcoveney jcoveney@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    joans joans@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    pnarang pnarang@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    mbouchard mbouchard@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    wcampbell wcampbell@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    pmcgee pmcgee@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    kyleb kyleb@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    fred fred@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    amcknight amcknight@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    josh josh@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    fish fish@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    musickillerrus musickillerrus@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    kbolton kbolton@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    mashraf mashraf@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    jparker jparker@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    efrohnhoefer efrohnhoefer@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    sunwc sunwc@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    apanasenko apanasenko@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    swilson swilson@twitter.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    charla.charla charla.charla@kotofi.pos.coupons 172.71.159.81
    0144131824995569 cddtdfoltb@rambler.ru 95.171.5.77
    e.pa.l.o.h.u.p.2.7 e.pa.l.o.h.u.p.2.7@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lilianascu liliana.scutt32@travellersrestlabs.click 109.122.24.71
    Mojavejrw suzanneberrios@gmail.com 178.132.0.42
    heinrich heinrich@simpleledger.at 104.22.20.142
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    joshuajohnson8316549l joshuajohnson8316549l@budgetthailandtravel.com 172.69.135.13
    20:8142:83:164:52:20:1:21 20:8142:83:164:52:20:1:21 120.40.130.70
    poopfromthesky poopfromthesky@proton.me 97.75.132.210
    20:5685:80:541:5:3:69:45 20:5685:80:541:5:3:69:45 120.40.130.70
    zenaida-mannix zenaida-mannix@netdeal.site 45.130.81.95
    2600:8806:611:700:98:713:9:5 2600:8806:611:700:98:713:9:5 120.40.130.70
    ElissaKeartland elissa.elissa@wocevo.socialmail.sbs 185.94.33.196
    krasnhello krasnhello@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    christopherrodriguez8220fjec christopherrodriguez8220fjec@c.budgetthailandtrave 156.241.246.105
    LulaStocch stocchlula466@gmail.com 108.181.18.42
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    susanrodriguez422559od susanrodriguez422559od@c.travel-e-store.com 64.188.3.143
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    thomas.maetz thomas.maetz@facebook.com 120.40.130.70
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