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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 - 28 Aug 2026 2:36 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,104
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    lpaez lpaez@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    HarryPride94099 harryharry13@lobexa.socialmail.sbs 91.132.198.81
    pduran pduran@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    203:480:65:9970:890:88:1348:383 203:480:65:9970:890:88:1348:383 120.40.130.70
    piprefitwo piprefitwo@mail.ru 172.71.154.178
    roguilenxmi roguilenxmi@inbox.ru (empty)
    2804:41:55:000:7020:5:78:19 2804:41:55:000:7020:5:78:19 120.40.130.70
    20:6204:7:00:6:77:29:995 20:6204:7:00:6:77:29:995 120.40.130.70
    jbenito jbenito@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    nell-williams nell-williams@jam.earnlivez.net 172.69.23.183
    2607:280:3033:8:838:647:85:7522 2607:280:3033:8:838:647:85:7522 120.40.130.70
    2400:100:765:8336:12:2:38:1 2400:100:765:8336:12:2:38:1 120.40.130.70
    mavendano mavendano@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    brittanyhargett brittanyhargett@8.dnsabr.com 172.71.159.82
    autopista autopista@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    franklinfranklin9 franklinfranklin9@divena.goodmail.world 104.22.20.143
    Tim10234389186 tim-tim30@capobi.woz.golf 199.96.165.220
    misoto misoto@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bsoto bsoto@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    2804:60:186:00:415:83:86:857 2804:60:186:00:415:83:86:857 120.40.130.70
    202:8071:5160:100:65:7130:720:57 202:8071:5160:100:65:7130:720:57 120.40.130.70
    insidesi insidesi@cialis-otc.com 5.3.221.136
    jamesmartin3696ljoi jamesmartin3696ljoi@a.budgetthailandtravel.com 172.71.154.179
    2804:194:895:5100:6805:8043:02:712 2804:194:895:5100:6805:8043:02:712 120.40.130.70
    2804:14:6166:1:942:74:698:32 2804:14:6166:1:942:74:698:32 120.40.130.70
    2001:8:3803:00::208:3:3 2001:8:3803:00::208:3:3 120.40.130.70
    2400:100:168:51:46:3:8:5 2400:100:168:51:46:3:8:5 120.40.130.70
    Isobel42J002826 isobelteakle14@dear.mxdood.com 191.101.114.39
    206:701:701:2600:890:98:08:372 206:701:701:2600:890:98:08:372 120.40.130.70
    BrianMub5605 brianfelix23@cool.muzaco.com 102.165.55.20
    TiffanyNaumann tiffany-naumann98@bead.denythedark.quest 192.126.143.41
    claudiav claudiav@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    emolina emolina@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    212:541:70:78:60::73:4721 212:541:70:78:60::73:4721 120.40.130.70
    earriagada earriagada@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    aquinones aquinones@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    mflores mflores@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    kcolipi kcolipi@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    pflores pflores@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    MONI vinayagam6380gamil.com@gmail.com 103.197.113.220
    csoledispa csoledispa@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    emorales emorales@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    pgarrido pgarrido@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    jvargas jvargas@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    clientes clientes@e.autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    jvidal jvidal@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    aarroyo aarroyo@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    malbornoz malbornoz@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    evargas evargas@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    psalas psalas@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    apena apena@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    etsukolindrum5098 etsukolindrum5098@hidebox.org 172.69.23.184
    jvalencia jvalencia@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    juniperbadge952 juniperbadge952@ohmyspins.com.de 152.233.20.145
    bettiekey bettiekey@tempr.email 162.158.167.43
    jsandoval jsandoval@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    clroca clroca@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    2404:700:44:16:7:6::98 2404:700:44:16:7:6::98 120.40.130.70
    aspuler aspuler@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    cgodoy cgodoy@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    2001:4451:826:2600:08:1119:42:96 2001:4451:826:2600:08:1119:42:96 120.40.130.70
    aseguridad aseguridad@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    ccarmona ccarmona@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    jvalck jvalck@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    mabarca mabarca@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    mayala mayala@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    cvivallos cvivallos@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    cgajardo cgajardo@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    mconsolo mconsolo@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    2001:4455:643:00:385:763:439:56 2001:4455:643:00:385:763:439:56 120.40.130.70
    kabarca kabarca@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    pmir pmir@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    rupreskono rupreskono@mail.ru 172.71.154.179
    esoto esoto@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    2001:4450:4733:3000:8:93:880:1 2001:4450:4733:3000:8:93:880:1 120.40.130.70
    ebustamante ebustamante@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    preyes preyes@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70
    fescobar fescobar@autopistacentral.cl 120.40.130.70