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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 - 25 Jan 2026 3:48 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,695
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
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    LaraeCoode71 hammer12@xrumer-2026.store 85.142.0.74
    DaniellaHite hammer17@xrumer-2026.store 85.142.2.154
    Nereida00I wcyfyrdd54r75@nestmailbox.com 192.157.58.237
    jennifergrenier2808 jennifergrenier2808@1mail.x24hr.com 104.22.20.179
    VanceStreetman vancestreetman@cer.scoldly.com 23.226.137.155
    YQKLachlan lachlan-firkins@contact.openbillieholiday.click 142.147.110.127
    robertmanske84 robertmanske84@broad.ehomu.com 104.22.20.179
    KellieH5903 hammer1@xrumer-2026.store 46.150.244.212
    bartholomeveum1509 bartholomeveum1509@iservmail.com 162.158.167.133
    KXXTemeka42 temekalavarack94@just.cdfaq.com 181.215.16.91
    ThanhCosh9 thanh.cosh@goldenjubileesummerparty.co.uk 194.102.38.232
    RuebenDwight82 ruebendwight79@keep.cdfaq.com 191.96.252.53
    michaelaba mike@bchforeveryone.net 149.102.232.35
    BillyHallman billy.hallman@d500.emergencylocksmith.xyz 45.3.42.189
    tech tech@swittch.site 120.40.130.70
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    CelesteRhc celeste-hackler@goldenjubileesummerparty.co.uk 194.102.38.231
    SGTMargene fatimafowell@b.cr.cloudns.asia 138.199.50.145
    JasonSarazine jasonsarazinerealestate@gmail.com 46.110.31.125
    pubego pubego@dogsmot.com 104.247.115.48
    fsae fsae@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
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    Novella2763 novella-dorsey@d500.emergencylocksmith.xyz 104.207.45.204
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    JesusSchroder fatimafowell@b.cr.cloudns.asia 138.199.50.145
    txnzthit txnzthit@vargosmail.com 162.158.167.133
    Stefan8274 stefan-nave@me-and-u.org.uk 196.247.160.133
    valja.born valja.born@t-online.de 172.71.154.178
    info info@elikos.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
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