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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 - 23 Jun 2026 4:54 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,422
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    finlaylynette finlaylynette@solstris.com 162.158.167.121
    h.o.t.uz.a.p.oxih.e.06. h.o.t.uz.a.p.oxih.e.06.@gmail.com 95.216.68.244
    hruvqwle hruvqwle@legenmail.com 120.40.130.70
    carolhaynes1913 carolhaynes1913@tacoblastmail.com 78.111.155.14
    xtoyotaug2026 xtoyotaug2026@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    tattscast contractcontentcreator@outlook.com 2605:591:31:10:19:76:543:43
    diseaseawarenesssticker diseaseawarenesssticker@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    manuelalberto.ramirezalmansa manuelalberto.ramirezalmansa@gmail.com 146.19.125.67
    NCDReda53080 4@solatog.online 193.124.67.142
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    julia julia@example.com 120.40.130.70
    recipient recipient@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tester tester@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pgjdbc-testing pgjdbc-testing@example.com 120.40.130.70
    anna anna@example.com 120.40.130.70
    cidead1 cidead1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testb testb@example.com 120.40.130.70
    arvinu arvinu@example.com 120.40.130.70
    userc userc@example.com 120.40.130.70
    new new@example.com 120.40.130.70
    thereisnoemail thereisnoemail@example.com 120.40.130.70
    usera usera@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testuser12345 testuser12345@example.com 120.40.130.70
    User1 User1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    User2 User2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pkuczynski pkuczynski@example.com 120.40.130.70
    cidead2 cidead2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    other other@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dist dist@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test-subkeys test-subkeys@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testuser testuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    204:441:1803:5648::352:2648 204:441:1803:5648::352:2648 120.40.130.70
    test1234 test1234@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Aliceuser2 Aliceuser2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    xutao xutao@example.com 120.40.130.70
    classmate1 classmate1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    myname myname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bob bob@example.com 120.40.130.70
    mingbobo mingbobo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    sfpoxaczgh sfpoxaczgh@rambler.ru 155.103.71.200
    alex alex@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dev dev@example.com 120.40.130.70
    UsuSad2 UsuSad2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    puddinpop beautifullydipherent22@gmail.com 24.180.176.24
    bobuser1 bobuser1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    deepakkushwaha.mail011 deepakkushwaha.mail011@gmail.com 83.229.26.216
    i.t.o.fa.m.o.1.5.5 i.t.o.fa.m.o.1.5.5@gmail.com 89.124.66.126
    deepakkushwaha.mail011 deepakkushwaha.mail011@gmail.com 87.18.91.98
    DAVID info@dominiodelbienamado.com 209:3:3136:245::39:29
    helpdesk helpdesk@eaglecounty.us 120.40.130.70
    megan.morrissey megan.morrissey@eaglecounty.us 120.40.130.70
    clemmiemuhammad3781 clemmiemuhammad3781@booi777glory.top 162.158.167.121
    charityhaber170 charityhaber170@mailmenot.io 172.71.154.168
    wavecable wavecable@wavecable.com 120.40.130.70
    jsmith jsmith@gunbycomm.net 120.40.130.70
    john john@thesmallbiztech.com 120.40.130.70
    202:46:444:0:75:29:867:88 202:46:444:0:75:29:867:88 120.40.130.70
    nataliemichalski3701 nataliemichalski3701@bd.dns-cloud.net 172.71.154.168
    TahliaDundas c.l.i.ni.c.f.orh.i.m3.50@gmail.com 65.21.16.207
    Maria57 myphotoden964@gmail.comm 2600:100:13:4407:0:25:91:101