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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 - 3 Aug 2026 11:11 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,339
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    hlund hlund@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    donaldjones9805581l donaldjones9805581l@swartluxury258.com 120.40.130.70
    postertun postertun@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    dfauske dfauske@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    sc.administrativo sc.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    ce.administrativo ce.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    rn.administrativo rn.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    ba.administrativo ba.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    rr.administrativo rr.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    coefa coefa@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    lothingbo lothingbo@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    aposentados.cadastro aposentados.cadastro@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    am.administrativo am.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    licitacoes licitacoes@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    al.administrativo al.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    quimioterapicos quimioterapicos@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    eleicoes2015 eleicoes2015@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    pi.administrativo pi.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    renato.canuto renato.canuto@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    meucadastro meucadastro@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    es.administrativo es.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    cadastro cadastro@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    to.administrativo to.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    se.administrativo se.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    coans.gecor coans.gecor@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    pbm pbm@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    ro.administrativo ro.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    rj.administrativo rj.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    donaldjones9805581l donaldjones9805581l@swartluxury258.com 120.40.130.70
    coans.gejur coans.gejur@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    spm.administrativo spm.administrativo@postalsaude.com.br 120.40.130.70
    LesterRosensteng lesterrosenstengel58@book.saiba-mais.com 196.51.95.99
    ddobroliubov ddobroliubov@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    czech czech@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    sanderson sanderson@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    bristov bristov@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    dfaferek dfaferek@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    idankova idankova@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    jamie-colebe jamie-colebe@fakrea.online 191.101.250.187
    bmema bmema@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    severnamakedonija severnamakedonija@younglife.org 120.40.130.70
    ryder ryder@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    a.dm.i.n a.dm.i.n@krab6.id 45.3.48.235
    czuo czuo@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    melissa melissa@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    ryder ryder@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    budbigham6 o.x.i.m.us7.7.7.kf.1h.0.n.p.43.6@gmail.com 176.102.222.121
    paulm paulm@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    network-engineering network-engineering@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    2001:410:601:1100::2080 2001:410:601:1100::2080 120.40.130.70
    lsp+arin lsp+arin@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    anujsaharan anujsaharan@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    acod acod@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    christopher christopher@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    lsp+arin lsp+arin@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    melissa melissa@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    az az@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    ValentinaH sarahgonzalez7571lyzw@gsasearchengineranker.guru 217.60.121.127
    2001:410:601:1100::596 2001:410:601:1100::596 120.40.130.70
    christopher christopher@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    anujsaharan anujsaharan@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    2001:410:601:1100::5237 2001:410:601:1100::5237 120.40.130.70
    selmagalla i.nt.tr.ade..c.n@gmail.com 174.171.100.226
    kalinina-iu63i kalinina-iu63i@rambler.ru 23.229.49.237
    johnniekulikowski4848 johnniekulikowski4848@gsa.fghe.store 81.57.88.246
    sstrong sstrong@lc.younglife.org 120.40.130.70