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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 - 20 Jun 2026 1:00 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,946
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2600:1010:12:071:00:18:745:3450
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 16.56.9.27
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nuser nuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2603:800:400:48:2545:8:64:69
    mar.ta.s.pe.l.l.o.wd.a. mar.ta.s.pe.l.l.o.wd.a.@gmail.com 176.36.146.80
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2600:1700:6924:4010:1::1:46
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2603:800:400:48:08:::8711
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2600:1700:6924:4010:508:4310:95:38
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 16.56.22.103
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2600:1010:17:00:2143:3:418:29
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2605:59:800:10:5476:3:21:3192
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 50.232.90.242
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 15.181.3.127
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 52.53.235.5
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2600:1700:6924:4010:56:844:1:6
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2600:1700:6924:4010:5431:344:55:39
    202:1810:511:9500:4162:96:937: 202:1810:511:9500:4162:96:937: 120.40.130.70
    gjbdds gjbdds@drblockendo.com 2600:1700:6924:4010:14:461:67:381
    davidmartin21632hvj davidmartin21632hvj@c.gsavps.xyz 107.175.85.9
    HansMacfarlane9 hansmacfarlane58@past.pettin.com 152.89.128.136
    202:020:59:70:999:905:17:12 202:020:59:70:999:905:17:12 120.40.130.70
    yo.kifelu.l95.6 yo.kifelu.l95.6@gmail.com 171.22.133.82
    MistyBarna555 jamesmartinez13480dcg@c.gsavps.xyz 196.51.20.4
    202:1808::95:886:19:679:104 202:1808::95:886:19:679:104 120.40.130.70
    Alisa72326132 alisa-baxley30@vipitv.com 110.244.97.222
    202:03:9588:3001:228:5:93:345 202:03:9588:3001:228:5:93:345 120.40.130.70
    ripe-notify ripe-notify@proxad.net 120.40.130.70
    202:1808::95:886:19:679:104 202:1808::95:886:19:679:104 120.40.130.70
    eyxmmksidj eyxmmksidj@rambler.ru 85.9.20.132
    tentrem tentrem@tenfura.ru 120.40.130.70
    ivanfuvuso ivanfuvuso@mail.ru 104.22.20.143
    CarleyEsmond9 robertjackson2833tev2@gsasearchengineranker.info 198.20.174.147
    verifgas2 verifgas2@konstruksituntas.com 172.69.134.71
    mohammadtoliver11 mohammadtoliver11@dear.mxdood.com 162.158.167.121
    GeniaBelz80158 anthonymiller1566nsel@gsasearchenginerankervps.com 104.223.126.109
    VidaKohn53439940 joshuamartin8347b190@gsasearchenginerankervps.com 192.126.206.253
    danecornell70 danecornell70@tapo.blyxen.org 120.40.130.70
    LorenGipps203 finlaylynette@solstris.com 144.48.52.102
    RheaZ57838757372 rhealeija66@nor.mxdood.com 191.101.92.83
    johnanderson6106obaq johnanderson6106obaq@verifiedlinklist.com 162.158.167.122
    lynwoodgsell lynwoodgsell@vilocom.vn 172.71.154.178
    damienb387 damienb387@gail.com 146.19.125.67
    ZacheryBigelow zacherybigelow65@last.muzaco.com 191.101.92.83
    RedaEdkins42179 reda-edkins2@corrective.meettravellersrest.click 147.53.113.127
    stevenbrown4323lnbg stevenbrown4323lnbg@a.welcometotijuana.com 104.22.20.143
    JadaE6948264 b.ail.bo.n.d.s.1.20@gmail.com 65.21.16.207
    MarcellaStockwel pauldavis9511u8he@b.resorts-in-asia.com 192.126.248.95
    KarryWine285720 ferdinandtearle3588@pw.epac.to 69.4.93.62
    810035714 810035714@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    HeidiLawrence kristeenwinifred@solstris.com 191.101.114.68
    yy7798 yy7798@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    lik6 lik6@blogranks.top 193.58.104.223
    dinajonsson7337 dinajonsson7337@23.8.dnsabr.com 104.22.20.142
    1137349475 1137349475@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    1542966096 1542966096@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    mouzongsan mouzongsan@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    552432481 552432481@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    r.o.o.f.e.rmatt.0.5. r.o.o.f.e.rmatt.0.5.@gmail.com 216.24.212.209
    ecd0a5d44d7cd3081a158acdb4763f1e buba.grabowski@vp.pl 188.146.34.226
    fred.fred fred.fred@dotema.supermail.space 172.69.22.86
    653406577 653406577@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    120116237 120116237@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    287767957 287767957@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    iqing520 iqing520@qq.com 120.40.130.70
    hpzxyj hpzxyj@qq.com 120.40.130.70