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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 - 4 Feb 2026 12:10 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,786
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    joe joe@megacorpone.com 120.40.130.70
    first first@megacorpone.com 120.40.130.70
    bobby bobby@nova.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jeanninechecchi83 jeanninechecchi83@cool.muzaco.com 172.71.158.68
    ValeriaAskew kittybuckner6585@1mail.x24hr.com 178.175.134.125
    3c502e320d.8030601 3c502e320d.8030601@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    saouel saouel@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    fosterarredondo fosterarredondo@hidebox.org 172.69.23.193
    polyfab polyfab@nova.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    198.244.183.117 198.244.183.117 176.8.89.36
    periard periard@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    susanwilliams5754bsi7 susanwilliams5754bsi7@c.mustdoindubai.com 194.15.105.176
    fsae fsae@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    sewahare sewahare@mailforspam.com 46.8.16.52
    info info@southfront.press 120.40.130.70
    info info@eracing.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    carltonarek carltonarek@23.8.dnsabr.com 172.71.154.179
    opensource opensource@eracing.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    lvalero-arin lvalero-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    eric.germain eric.germain@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    si-reseau si-reseau@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    0r6dnyvdxmrmnqdervn-gw 0r6dnyvdxmrmnqdervn-gw@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    reaganbottomley1190 reaganbottomley1190@officecombine.com 202.14.5.176
    richard.labrie richard.labrie@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    jonathan.dupont jonathan.dupont@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    karissa00w karissa.villasenor@use.beachtenenglisch.click 109.122.24.41
    ysimard-arin ysimard-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    martial-faith.tshiji martial-faith.tshiji@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    mftshiji-arin mftshiji-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    pal-marcell.rencsik pal-marcell.rencsik@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    ahmed.fawzi ahmed.fawzi@vk.com 120.40.130.70
    Kendrick11K andrewjohnson8573s95l@b.blog-stuff.com 64.188.3.130
    pal-marcell.rencsik pal-marcell.rencsik@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    angelbraun angelbraun@anonmails.de 172.69.134.210
    PenneyVene gr.aves.l.u.ise.ddie@gmail.com 171.234.8.125
    nataliepaltridge16 nataliepaltridge16@support.51tiemo.com 162.158.166.212
    AntonyKimbrell6 andrewgonzalez6946xkz6@c.mustdoindubai.com 173.232.119.125
    BeauGrubb1 beaubeau43@zosiga.new-mail.info 65.111.7.144
    CGWDollie8 jonellequarles8609@mailmenot.io 198.20.168.83
    Robertgig a.g.ge.t8.5h.ov.ar.d.@gmail.com 149.40.50.55
    Cassie6667 cassie-cassie@kalecu.itpower.sbs 216.26.238.152
    jennamckeever4527 jennamckeever4527@discardmail.com 172.69.134.211
    natulya.fedosova.96 natulya.fedosova.96@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    KristaLynn24 elizabethlopez3122w4z0@travel-e-store.com 152.232.41.74
    marekmerchut marekmerchut@wp.pl 120.40.130.70
    christopherlamb christopherlamb@ssl.tls.cloudns.asia 172.69.23.193
    mtestj mtestj@blogwebsite.top 45.33.252.79
    AndreaKavanaugh heikehoutman@chatgptku.pro 178.175.134.125
    OliveLovelace4 donaldgonzalez1034i1kp@c.welcometotijuana.com 104.140.210.9
    burcin.cafer burcin.cafer@petrolofisi.com.tr 120.40.130.70
    loriforth loriforth@7e9a.rshrthertherth.net 161.77.119.117
    falconllm.partnerships falconllm.partnerships@tii.ae 120.40.130.70
    EmilyConstant emilyconstant27@just.cdfaq.com 196.242.114.25
    2804:3364:822:4601:528:987:3:722 2804:3364:822:4601:528:987:3:722 120.40.130.70
    afy afy@petrolofisi.com.tr 120.40.130.70
    bayiportal bayiportal@petrolofisi.com.tr 120.40.130.70
    vonniebonilla88 vonniebonilla88@cold.muzaco.com 172.71.154.179
    vadim.dmitriev.02 vadim.dmitriev.02@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    TarenFox4528 taren-fox@festivaldomingosmartins.com.br 142.111.72.198
    nicolas nicolas@debarras-marseille-13.fr 104.22.17.127
    natulya.fedosova.96 natulya.fedosova.96@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    info info@strictlydigital.net 120.40.130.70
    dolnovam dolnovam@mail.ru 162.158.166.213
    fredricthaxton-7935 fredricthaxton-7935@bctmail.com 45.158.194.245
    BryceBourgeois brycebourgeois94@panel.cdfaq.com 191.96.95.50
    edward-deamer edward-deamer@ulmail.web.id 162.158.166.212
    spymesat spymesat@auria.space 120.40.130.70
    CarriX59017 carri.webb@muralbythesea.co.uk 196.247.160.78
    unul1386 unul1386@gazeta.pl 188.126.76.33
    206:5900:451:400:9468:59:53: 206:5900:451:400:9468:59:53: 120.40.130.70
    erickmacmillan8411 erickmacmillan8411@now.mefound.com 107.175.14.135
    alexandre.courouble alexandre.courouble@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    lionel.valero lionel.valero@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    gayleortega3797 gayleortega3797@pvcb.lol 104.22.20.178
    2404:8000:90:0::570:791:989 2404:8000:90:0::570:791:989 120.40.130.70
    erickaclemes6227 erickaclemes6227@trashmailr.com 172.71.154.178
    si-reseau si-reseau@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    HoraceFelan034 horace-felan13@iwinedu.com 110.244.96.21
    ysimard-arin ysimard-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70