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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 - 15 Feb 2026 9:37 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,633
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    zenker-k zenker-k@t-online.de 172.69.134.211
    jon jon@example.com 120.40.130.70
    mail mail@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pol pol@example.com 120.40.130.70
    de1vote de1vote@example.com 120.40.130.70
    derp derp@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testj testj@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pingt pingt@example.com 120.40.130.70
    third-party third-party@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jrhodes jrhodes@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ola.nordmann ola.nordmann@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    joe.john joe.john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testtriad1909 testtriad1909@example.com 120.40.130.70
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    chris chris@example.com 120.40.130.70
    cas cas@example.com 120.40.130.70
    benedicte benedicte@example.com 120.40.130.70
    boemocnisi1979 boemocnisi1979@mailopenz.com 104.22.20.178
    practiceemail practiceemail@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    warms0x warms0x@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bogus bogus@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nuser nuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bigbob bigbob@example.com 120.40.130.70
    EulahRemley eulah-remley@goldenjubileesummerparty.co.uk 196.245.161.22
    stickley stickley@example.com 120.40.130.70
    coevote111 coevote111@example.com 120.40.130.70
    someone someone@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test2 test2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    poppy poppy@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ninja ninja@example.com 120.40.130.70
    GlennaRigg1036 glennarigg1644@ultimateemailstorage.shop 172.255.83.48
    thisisatest thisisatest@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john.smith john.smith@example.com 120.40.130.70
    scyutjaHax2 scyutjaHax2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    3471905 3471905@list.ru 95.27.133.128
    test123 test123@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pywatchftp.test.dsa pywatchftp.test.dsa@example.com 120.40.130.70
    randomperson randomperson@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user02 user02@example.com 120.40.130.70
    normalpasswords normalpasswords@example.com 120.40.130.70
    warning warning@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    enigma enigma@example.com 120.40.130.70
    sarahheidemann sarahheidemann@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dummy11 dummy11@example.com 120.40.130.70
    yasuyuki yasuyuki@example.com 120.40.130.70
    name name@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test1 test1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    someonesemail someonesemail@example.com 120.40.130.70
    monteoden monteoden@cryptoboss-casino09qw.top 72.56.191.102
    ken-nw ken-nw@example.com 120.40.130.70
    salz salz@example.com 120.40.130.70
    felicia-keel felicia-keel@9f8f.adspertsolution.online 196.51.79.236
    abefantin319 abefantin319@mailmenot.io 45.139.125.201
    tomato-2 tomato-2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    amineth amineth@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Stewart24K stewart-mckillop@superemailbox.shop 172.255.83.151
    bt-daily-release bt-daily-release@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johannes.linke.infosec johannes.linke.infosec@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bigbosspimp bigbosspimp@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    winifred8comstock16051981 winifred8comstock16051981@outlook.com 216.26.247.239
    BrittnyHuntsman brittny-huntsman@747f.kasc1lk.xyz 45.33.157.248
    IvanCantamessa ivancantamessa@dhfmail.com 193.31.74.78
    deal deal@getaisupreme.com 120.40.130.70
    jerry jerry@neoxinet.com 172.71.158.68
    GailAmey57617 gailamey14@list.cdfaq.com 196.240.254.38
    GarryChanter garrychanter21@self.ehomu.com 196.242.114.93
    202:3100:629:600:525:17:54:595 202:3100:629:600:525:17:54:595 120.40.130.70
    khornal123 khornal123@gmail.com 2001:56:70:300:516:7128:10:80
    mepowers6995 mepowers6995@gmail.com 70.40.116.70