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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 - 24 May 2026 2:22 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,657
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    DanelleHutcheon michaelanderson9451ikpx@c.verifiedlinklist.com 92.118.41.227
    KathrynGoheen0 kathryngoheen78@cool.muzaco.com 45.125.245.178
    Alina66107 alinabegley69@dear.mxdood.com 181.215.16.238
    victoriastepp victoriastepp@anonmails.de 172.71.158.68
    kristinakehado kristinakehado@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    DarrenHenderson elverawallace2384@mytempmail.org 154.208.61.203
    MeridithNevarez williammartinez5569s3hf@linkbuildingtools.club 196.51.236.84
    meaganarscott20 meaganarscott20@hawk.dravix.org 104.22.17.127
    ivandamopo ivandamopo@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    TanyaPottinger3 tanyapottinger3@fiber.pettin.com 45.125.245.18
    Nate5089003226 nate-nate100@dudunu.itpower.sbs 31.134.3.168
    yaroslav.sevastyanov.1988 yaroslav.sevastyanov.1988@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    raquela raquela@b.rchelicoptersreview.com 141.98.11.117
    elainedollar3887 elainedollar3887@legoshi.cloud 172.69.134.84
    annettefuentes annettefuentes@freundin.ru 172.71.158.69
    vmdxa3817 vmdxa3817@komandir057.ru 195.209.216.160
    204:441:200:007::93:007 204:441:200:007::93:007 120.40.130.70
    KarlLru41634 karlkarl37@dubepa.nmail.work 83.97.119.249
    MorrisClogstoun morrisclogstoun41@seat.muzaco.com 191.101.92.164
    ElaineAndrus703 elaineandrus69@list.cdfaq.com 191.101.92.218
    rbxokwjd rbxokwjd@bethcampbell.biz 172.69.134.84
    jaksondarkz jaksondarkz@vip.163.com 120.40.130.70
    KandiMatthes4 kandimatthes73@yell.milkgg.com 191.101.114.39
    1stchoicestoragemanager 1stchoicestoragemanager@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    johnsmith6684onn2 johnsmith6684onn2@verifiedlinklist.com 162.158.167.134
    RoscoeStrempel7 roscoestrempel100@mode.ehomu.com 103.221.232.62
    thaocline thaocline@23.8.dnsabr.com 172.69.23.193
    karenthomas4379mcoa karenthomas4379mcoa@gsasearchengineranker.com 172.69.134.84
    delmardelmar delmardelmar@cepogi.likeme.buzz 162.158.167.133
    hrabrgulyaev1996673 hrabrgulyaev1996673@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    GiseleK1761 richardbrown2683232m@gsasearchengineranker.shop 192.126.206.24
    szpieg1902 szpieg1902@wp.pl 120.40.130.70
    HassieWolak hassiewolak17@self.ehomu.com 103.221.232.229
    nssofkbn nssofkbn@bethcampbell.biz 172.69.134.85
    ReedRoten864 reed.roten26@f1a7.xk29sd.site 95.164.206.80
    matthiaskinne26 matthiaskinne26@self.ehomu.com 172.71.154.179
    polly.polly50 polly.polly50@gepizu.paper.beer 172.69.134.85
    dannnytee dannnytee@gmail10p.com 151.240.91.58
    casgogo226 casgogo226@blogwebsite.top 191.102.132.8
    otd.k.uvd.bel otd.k.uvd.bel@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    aliciamelinda aliciamelinda@solstris.com 172.71.154.178
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    RenateOwg127971 elizabethmartin4014tmuv@gsasearchengineranker.shop 107.175.147.164
    202:8108:8125:100:71:917:240:24 202:8108:8125:100:71:917:240:24 120.40.130.70
    Josmaria jose.cancela@live.com 90.160.204.189
    alex.tereshenko86 alex.tereshenko86@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    ponomaryov.borya.1983 ponomaryov.borya.1983@bk.ru 104.22.20.143
    rbxokwjd rbxokwjd@bethcampbell.biz 23.236.138.6
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    KoryFeint539206 koryfeint44@fast.veauly.com 223.29.254.158
    stormytran stormytran@pw.epac.to 104.22.17.127
    2001:6:30:900:699:21:858:45 2001:6:30:900:699:21:858:45 120.40.130.70
    vasyukov.mityusha vasyukov.mityusha@list.ru 162.158.167.133
    MargaretHalse1 yvettehollars@discardmail.com 104.223.49.32
    vk1 vk1@praymdirect.site 120.40.130.70
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    TerryElmore7 terryelmore51@dear.mxdood.com 144.48.52.102
    2001:6:30:900:699:21:858:45 2001:6:30:900:699:21:858:45 120.40.130.70
    BonnyI429719 bonnyfinnis23@slide.veauly.com 196.196.253.94
    denis-sidorov1 denis-sidorov1@casinotds.xyz 120.40.130.70
    erikachristian erikachristian@t-online.de 172.69.23.194
    matthewmartinez711254u0 matthewmartinez711254u0@e.welcometotijuana.com 172.69.23.194
    MyraKlug458962 myra-myra89@tizose.3mail.info 104.245.241.102
    beckywaterworth12 beckywaterworth12@that.mxdood.com 104.22.17.126
    uoybjwqx uoybjwqx@bethcampbell.biz 162.158.167.133
    niamhsterne38 niamhsterne38@tuli.blyxen.com 104.22.20.142
    kristofer-wiese kristofer-wiese@wordspacemail.com 162.158.167.133
    temekatemeka temekatemeka@tezaho.paper.beer 194.180.237.173
    aracelis53 s.e.x.hub..red@gmail.com 80.74.164.227
    InaHannam959270 andrewmoore70422lkt@gsasearchengineranker.com 156.241.201.215
    NormanSprague normansprague53@these.veauly.com 154.16.69.58
    401 401@solatog.online 162.158.167.133
    mayawatanabe45627 mayawatanabe45627@c.seoautomationpro.com 109.107.191.3
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