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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 - 8 Apr 2026 10:04 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,934
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bob.smith bob.smith@example.com 120.40.130.70
    foss3 foss3@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testingsomething testingsomething@example.com 120.40.130.70
    text text@comcast.ru 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    example example@example.com 120.40.130.70
    fcmwxxtl fcmwxxtl@bekommenmail.com 172.71.154.179
    maynardmactier maynardmactier@cryptoboss-zerkaloss.top 120.40.130.70
    barrysales barrysales@gipitiw.tech 104.22.20.234
    2600:1900:0:4300::1801 2600:1900:0:4300::1801 120.40.130.70
    barrysales barrysales@gipitiw.tech 172.69.134.82
    2dereefffgtyh 2dereefffgtyh@anonmails.de 120.40.130.70
    fengyang984342djy fengyang984342djy@a.seoautomationpro.com 162.158.167.134
    barrysales barrysales@gipitiw.tech 104.22.20.235
    emerson-paterson emerson-paterson@0245.realtemiz.xyz 172.69.134.83
    jessieheidenreich jessieheidenreich@anonmails.de 104.22.20.235
    elouisepederson elouisepederson@dmxs8.com 172.71.158.69
    rolicpedlKa rolicpedlKa@problemno.shop 104.22.20.235
    charlesjohnson6150vcvp charlesjohnson6150vcvp@gsasearchengineranker.com 172.69.134.82
    barrysales barrysales@gipitiw.tech 172.71.154.179
    nywnlxtonkl nywnlxtonkl@problemno.shop 172.69.134.82
    barrysales barrysales@gipitiw.tech 162.158.167.134
    GroverNug nikolaevbogdanjy7993@rambler.ru 135.181.119.248
    abepenny.4089 abepenny.4089@xn--krken-ucc.cc 91.84.118.32
    rosalindapickett rosalindapickett@1secmail.org 172.71.158.69
    a.nna.81.ho.d.r.iges. a.nna.81.ho.d.r.iges.@gmail.com 84.239.45.141
    alyssaclaudio alyssaclaudio@koes.justdied.com 120.40.130.70
    202:267:604:220:0:2000:0:4 202:267:604:220:0:2000:0:4 120.40.130.70
    kirksaldana7737 kirksaldana7737@cryptoboss995.top 172.69.23.194
    anthonyrodriguez3998uvs3 anthonyrodriguez3998uvs3@budgetthailandtravel.com 104.22.20.234
    jeanninefeldman jeanninefeldman@mailmenot.io 172.71.158.69
    2dereefffgtyh 2dereefffgtyh@anonmails.de 120.40.130.70
    an.n.a8.1.hod.r.i.ge.s. an.n.a8.1.hod.r.i.ge.s.@gmail.com 84.239.45.141
    rondahanran rondahanran@anonmails.de 162.158.167.134
    1herefyhhuji 1herefyhhuji@anonmails.de 109.206.181.70
    yoasanbxskn yoasanbxskn@ingushetdomaz.pro 172.69.23.194
    graciela.graciela41 graciela.graciela41@zisosu.mailbox.mom 172.69.23.193
    barrysales barrysales@gipitiw.tech 172.69.23.193
    margaretabaron margaretabaron@roseau.me 200.10.47.72
    randythorton randythorton@anonmails.de 104.22.20.235
    barrysales barrysales@gipitiw.tech 172.71.158.68
    eahfbk70 eahfbk70@aviator-game-best.com 185.181.246.203
    tester8421 tester8421@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ip-172-24-3-190-root ip-172-24-3-190-root@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test.key.bar.foo test.key.bar.foo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    gildonghong gildonghong@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nexux nexux@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    aaaaabbbbbbeeee aaaaabbbbbbeeee@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ip-172-24-2-182-root ip-172-24-2-182-root@example.com 120.40.130.70
    foo foo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ip-172-24-3-146-root ip-172-24-3-146-root@example.com 120.40.130.70
    anonymous.child anonymous.child@example.com 120.40.130.70
    smith smith@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test1 test1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Rdx64 Rdx64@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    deevote111 deevote111@example.com 120.40.130.70
    example example@example.com 120.40.130.70
    vlas vlas@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tacofarmer tacofarmer@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ip-172-20-1-97-root ip-172-20-1-97-root@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testj testj@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john.doe john.doe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ololo ololo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    8075F3C492F385707F4C61F8560EA3B4 8075F3C492F385707F4C61F8560EA3B4@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nino nino@example.com 120.40.130.70
    heliav heliav@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ip-172-24-2-15-root ip-172-24-2-15-root@example.com 120.40.130.70
    patricemoyes1179 patricemoyes1179@ssl.tls.cloudns.asia 172.69.23.193
    foo.bar foo.bar@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dummy dummy@example.com 120.40.130.70
    mario.rossi mario.rossi@example.com 120.40.130.70
    linus linus@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blafoo blafoo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    winifredcoles4656 winifredcoles4656@anonmails.de 172.69.23.194
    NaomiJackson expected.mosquito.aoec@hidingmail.com 212.104.215.108
    RosalieShealy rosalierosalie5@nazixe.socialmail.sbs 65.111.6.13
    alysabrereton alysabrereton@psytool.ru 120.40.130.70