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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 - 5 Jun 2026 2:04 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,965
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    202:020:50:172:23:82:77:59 202:020:50:172:23:82:77:59 120.40.130.70
    xnwerdaaqf xnwerdaaqf@rambler.ru 172.71.159.82
    info info@anset.com.tr 120.40.130.70
    CliffHolroyd cliffholroyd85@only.veauly.com 191.101.114.220
    adolphrydge-7032 adolphrydge-7032@zolon.store 162.158.167.134
    TroyMolle16627 troymolle67@yell.milkgg.com 144.48.52.102
    DelorisCherry0 delorischerry35@slide.veauly.com 154.16.69.146
    Tilly86T8914597 tilly.noble@9253.scalesurge.io 173.208.28.185
    porfiriosasaki porfiriosasaki@bb28.dev 104.22.20.143
    202:020:50:172:23:82:77:59 202:020:50:172:23:82:77:59 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:89:500:4181:58:46:28 202:1810:89:500:4181:58:46:28 120.40.130.70
    bookerdorron86 bookerdorron86@nor.mxdood.com 104.22.17.126
    maniemanie maniemanie@kubema.topgun.fit 172.71.154.179
    rewqq rewqq@don-rem.ru (empty)
    hiroshilopez81295tk0p hiroshilopez81295tk0p@c.seoautomationpro.com 172.71.154.178
    trudybumgarner trudybumgarner@23.8.dnsabr.com 172.69.22.86
    orvillehubert-9812 orvillehubert-9812@pentec.xyz 98.158.235.192
    GastonBenny4534 gaston.benny.3092@clubnikagames777guide.top 72.56.158.52
    204:441:803:30::133:30 204:441:803:30::133:30 120.40.130.70
    WarnerSandes351 warner-sandes94@81d9.scalesurge.io 23.80.151.167
    HenryHarrison2 henryharrison41@81d9.scalesurge.io 23.80.151.54
    20:3341:61:00:48:938:8:80 20:3341:61:00:48:938:8:80 120.40.130.70
    melissamiddleton melissamiddleton@ff79.jackout.xyz 172.71.159.81
    NorrisLiardet6 norrisliardet@087b.scalesurge.io 23.80.151.145
    AlbertinaO35 albertina-runyon@d17d.scalesurge.io 173.208.28.216
    altahurd26 altahurd26@claim.mxdood.com 104.22.17.126
    casinoolympia ftarter@gmail.com 85.114.197.167
    CarmellaGuerra carmellaguerra51@hell.milkgg.com 154.16.69.184
    rickey-rickey rickey-rickey@kepare.loop.mom 172.69.22.86
    AndresPascal andres-pascal72@9885.scalesurge.io 23.80.151.158
    bridgettelawley.6637 bridgettelawley.6637@zolon.store 172.69.22.86
    ute.melvin9044 ute.melvin9044@hello-word-2026.store 104.22.17.127
    triciamaccullagh triciamaccullagh@hidebox.org 172.69.23.194
    2001:43:803:700:894:971:6847:00 2001:43:803:700:894:971:6847:00 120.40.130.70
    DelmarKitchen77 delmar-kitchen@9253.scalesurge.io 23.80.151.194
    DavisParish1 davis.parish72@9253.scalesurge.io 173.208.28.131
    ilu.x.eya.r.a7.7.1 ilu.x.eya.r.a7.7.1@gmail.com 144.124.249.141
    christophermartinez99644xnh christophermartinez99644xnh@c.verifiedlinklist.com 23.236.244.188
    2607:90:5307:20:909:786:347:900 2607:90:5307:20:909:786:347:900 120.40.130.70
    Oakwbscsv pha.ntom.supp.art@gmail.com 167.17.71.127
    melakins4658 melakins4658@anonmails.de 120.40.130.70
    Pidj75 Pidj75@outlok.com 120.40.130.70
    FaustinoAguilera juliennedakota@solstris.com 223.29.254.158
    ataylor ataylor@eurovip.club 138.59.204.89
    kw2 kw2@praymdirect.site 120.40.130.70
    2001:43:803:700:894:971:6847:00 2001:43:803:700:894:971:6847:00 120.40.130.70
    ChanceBallinger chanceballinger29@deny.milkgg.com 181.215.16.238
    DonnaBnu7662 donnasherrard11@181d.scalesurge.io 173.208.28.106
    KerstinKoehn695 jackesteves@kayfilms.top 154.208.61.195
    Diego drg120769@hotmail.com 77.208.166.99
    ZelmaWindradyne zelmawindradyne76@just.cdfaq.com 191.101.92.9
    StellaGroth1 k432rwefalymaga@needforspeeds.online 2.56.51.10
    SheriBehan18 jamessmith6586duwr@c.budgetthailandtravel.com 23.236.242.123
    info info@spacex.com 120.40.130.70
    lakeishalandseer lakeishalandseer@dd0c.ahplumbingnc.club 120.40.130.70
    202:908:2117:3041:777::225:92 202:908:2117:3041:777::225:92 120.40.130.70
    galaanatoli galaanatoli@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    ElmaEbersbach46 elmaebersbach56@dear.mxdood.com 144.48.52.117
    denis.morozov9021 denis.morozov9021@casinotds.xyz 115.167.65.191
    202:03:864:01:841:84:901:885 202:03:864:01:841:84:901:885 120.40.130.70
    miltonadams23456 miltonadams23456@gmail.comip 120.40.130.70
    louisafanaskin70658 louisafanaskin70658@pamyatnic.su 120.40.130.70
    20:41:10:1800:0:82:80:268 20:41:10:1800:0:82:80:268 120.40.130.70
    Josephavals b.en.n.i.e.c.havez.6.186.@gmail.com 34.133.82.89
    202:03:92:01:351:702:376:956 202:03:92:01:351:702:376:956 120.40.130.70
    kenneth8 boostyourtwitterfollowers@gmail.com 135.136.5.84
    EulaliaMcLamb eulalia.mclamb12@181d.scalesurge.io 23.80.151.71
    allrank9 allrank9@blogwebsite.top 104.22.20.142
    Josephavals b.en.n.i.e.c.havez.6.186.@gmail.com 104.28.246.127
    RobertoStonham roberto-stonham@8e4c.scalesurge.io 173.208.28.230
    justin.mathew28 justin.mathew28@689e.ahplumbingnc.club 151.247.50.30
    b.e.n.ni.e.c.ha.v.ez6.18.6 b.e.n.ni.e.c.ha.v.ez6.18.6@gmail.com 104.28.246.127