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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 - 30 Nov 2025 9:53 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,325
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    EduardoStern eduardostern16@gti.scoldly.com 23.236.211.27
    berenice-carrozza berenice-carrozza@spasenie.kiev.ua 191.223.83.48
    joel.dunningham-2219 joel.dunningham-2219@spasenie.kiev.ua 168.197.86.40
    community.id community.id@shopee.co.id 120.40.130.70
    t.8.2726.7.7 t.8.2726.7.7@gmail.com 216.24.212.53
    willianporteus991 willianporteus991@spasenie.kiev.ua 185.239.132.205
    ArletteSolander johnmoore7486gghy@mustdoindubai.com 45.33.157.179
    melisanugan2307 melisanugan2307@8.dnsabr.com 172.71.159.137
    trudi.trudi100 trudi.trudi100@hafaju.mailbox.mom 167.253.18.58
    CarynRotton carynrotton74@five.hivoltz.org 66.93.208.150
    josephjohnson3283zkrw josephjohnson3283zkrw@welcometotijuana.com 37.214.63.100
    isa isa@a.skincareproductoffers.com 172.71.159.138
    danielbrown4141q5cc danielbrown4141q5cc@verifiedlinklist.com 172.69.23.119
    info info@shopee.co.id 120.40.130.70
    SherryJhz96 sherryackman@gti.scoldly.com 23.236.211.27
    jillianupjohn283 jillianupjohn283@spambog.ru 172.69.134.211
    shopeepinjam shopeepinjam@shopee.co.id 120.40.130.70
    PerryCse4511 perrylange14@turi.glinxy.com 66.93.99.74
    karenbrown8862w7ub karenbrown8862w7ub@budgetthailandtravel.com 37.214.63.100
    siobhanwooldridge siobhanwooldridge@8.dnsabr.com 104.22.17.126
    123betsvpc margaretadebernales1@discard.email 192.126.252.238
    leslieseccombe96 leslieseccombe96@tutu.variots.com 196.51.159.102
    themit888 themit888@mail.ru 172.71.154.66
    xiomarafranki5745 xiomarafranki5745@anonmails.de 178.175.140.212
    Airbladeafp kdmacaronifarmview@gmail.com 198.8.84.3
    ZakMickey96 zakmickey85@gato.rixyle.com 66.93.210.145
    teresagonzalez4469 teresagonzalez4469@0815.ru 104.22.20.195
    KentLaws73 kentkent@mafero.sabo.bar 140.235.3.16
    rpop-test81 rpop-test81@bubbpinhalppo.ml 20.204.43.57
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    hunter-111 hunter-111@freespainmail.com 172.69.135.71
    pgslotcash margaretadebernales1@discard.email 107.175.149.73
    phoenix-789 phoenix-789@freespainmail.com 172.68.238.5
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    jacksonmaarleyz8032 jacksonmaarleyz@126.com 162.212.175.58
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    nahanjuniorz1358 nahanjuniorz@hotmail.com 107.174.244.236
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    petermueller2001 petermueller2001@salpingomyu.ru 120.40.130.70
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    MaxwellMontes lawerencegellert@b.cr.cloudns.asia 171.225.193.79
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    chrisdk97 chrisdk97@proton.me 2603:8000:901:60:98::036:481
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    asakunkle1768 asakunkle1768@anonmails.de 154.195.107.220
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