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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 - 3 Jul 2026 4:28 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,890
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    202:020:5:16:6:30:77:0 202:020:5:16:6:30:77:0 120.40.130.70
    andrewwilson3555kiss andrewwilson3555kiss@a.pattaya-mega.com 196.51.124.61
    GeorgiannaLigert georgiannaligertwood63@slide.veauly.com 191.101.92.9
    user user@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
    AlvaCarrion747 alvacarrion5@talk.muzaco.com 102.165.54.218
    dist dist@example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    FlynnBergmann jessicarodriguez8464rr0e@seoautomationpro.online 196.51.110.220
    subjectname subjectname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    AGWTristan tristanbuford5@nut.mxdood.com 102.165.55.20
    RosalieKennemer susanlopez86034ndl@f.seoautomationpro.com 152.232.108.136
    danial-costas danial-costas@wordspacemail.com 172.69.22.87
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    DillonDegraves dillondegraves73@talk.muzaco.com 102.165.53.105
    marywilliams27523sve marywilliams27523sve@b.pattaya-mega.com 173.44.219.173
    aurelia-pouncy98 aurelia-pouncy98@cleanhomeguard.com 172.71.159.81
    gsa gsa@supportmail.nofreeze.pro 104.22.17.126
    1gererddeeds 1gererddeeds@anonmails.de 104.207.46.114
    kelliegarvin96 kelliegarvin96@fiber.pettin.com 172.69.22.86
    l.i.nks.8.9.ma.st. l.i.nks.8.9.ma.st.@gmail.com 80.93.217.214
    li.nk.s.8.9.m.ast li.nk.s.8.9.m.ast@gmail.com 172.69.135.13
    donaldanderson62482kzd donaldanderson62482kzd@backlinks.monster 120.40.130.70
    michaelanderson9704lbb7 michaelanderson9704lbb7@b.blog-stuff.com 173.44.216.142
    202:267:5:6606:0:4800:0:16 202:267:5:6606:0:4800:0:16 120.40.130.70
    tvrparlemen tvrparlemen@dpr.go.id 120.40.130.70
    michaelrodriguez8653yfay michaelrodriguez8653yfay@blog-stuff.com 107.175.74.171
    pustekinfo pustekinfo@dpr.go.id 120.40.130.70
    jessicawilliams65203mq2 jessicawilliams65203mq2@gsasearchengineranker.info 107.175.36.155
    bagbinajabfung bagbinajabfung@dpr.go.id 120.40.130.70
    20:3341:59:508:982:69:13:708 20:3341:59:508:982:69:13:708 120.40.130.70
    bigjcosq bigjcosq@legenmail.com 162.158.167.121
    oki.oki oki.oki@seznam.cz 120.40.130.70
    robertgarcia8176h6f8 robertgarcia8176h6f8@a.welcometotijuana.com 196.51.59.200
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    matthewmartinez4549igdz matthewmartinez4549igdz@gsasearchengineranker.com 120.40.130.70
    l.in.k.s8.9.ma.s.t l.in.k.s8.9.ma.s.t@gmail.com 80.93.217.214
    liamromano32414oc5c liamromano32414oc5c@seoautomationpro.com 172.71.154.178
    colleendeberry3087 colleendeberry3087@hotbird.giize.com 162.158.167.122
    randywanliss2706 randywanliss2706@tempr.email 23.236.171.248
    HubertDoerr6 hubertdoerr33@role.cdfaq.com 181.215.16.219
    rileyjuarez rileyjuarez@freundin.ru 120.40.130.70
    msub msub@webtoteam.shop 172.69.135.14
    MaurineR93 maurinemonette10@fiber.pettin.com 154.16.69.250
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    LeanneY49598559 leannetall46@slow.pettin.com 23.81.230.194
    teso teso@testtttt.com 120.40.130.70
    donaldgonzalez6868xjxh donaldgonzalez6868xjxh@d.welcometotijuana.com 120.40.130.70
    AudraWeller michaeljones13510vm4@b.welcometotijuana.com 104.140.73.2
    JosManuel j.manuelballesterosarjona@gmail.com 46.222.231.6
    202:03:8709:100:273::126:9339 202:03:8709:100:273::126:9339 120.40.130.70
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    thomassmith8269iax7 thomassmith8269iax7@swartluxury258.com 172.245.135.5
    magdalenaslagle2451 magdalenaslagle2451@tribunnews.page 104.22.17.127
    norbertohollis norbertohollis@bd.dns-cloud.net 172.69.134.71
    sammy.vigna sammy.vigna@elitewaterrepair.com 172.69.134.71
    iesha.john91 iesha.john91@pestshielders.com 104.22.20.142
    Williams01G williamsmill20@role.cdfaq.com 102.165.54.212
    202:03:8709:100:273::126:9339 202:03:8709:100:273::126:9339 120.40.130.70
    silassconce silassconce@anonmails.de 104.22.20.143
    montenicolay6938 montenicolay6938@now.mefound.com 172.71.159.81
    Heriberto10I shellasommers@coin.wf 143.244.42.72
    shella.hennings shella.hennings@elitewaterrepair.com 172.71.154.179
    lin.ks.8.9mas.t. lin.ks.8.9mas.t.@gmail.com 104.22.17.126
    fawn-fawn fawn-fawn@tuzihu.hawkmail.digital 172.71.154.179
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    LorenzoBrownlee lorenzobrownlee34@deny.milkgg.com 196.198.13.152
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