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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 - 6 Jul 2026 7:01 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,119
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 178.93.201.195
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 178.93.201.113
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 178.93.201.5
    juliafults68 juliafults68@issue.mxdood.com 120.40.130.70
    yoqbqvms yoqbqvms@legenmail.com 120.40.130.70
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 178.93.201.135
    christelcollee.7548 christelcollee.7548@sansan160.techlaw-tap.com 104.22.20.143
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 191.96.36.49
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 178.93.200.122
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 178.93.200.137
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 204:441:2801:06::748:306
    whitneywaechter whitneywaechter@1mail.x24hr.com 104.22.17.127
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 204:441:2801:1::699:1
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 66.56.80.123
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 178.93.200.139
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 140.228.24.180
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 204:441:2801:21::05:121
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 204:441:2601:1::901:1
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 66.75.248.201
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 204:441:2801:75::3:75
    essiesigler88 essiesigler88@.mxdood.com 172.69.135.13
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 212.32.48.14
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 178.93.201.207
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 204:441:2801:97::422:497
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 202:267:344:809:0:000:0:4
    ricktoronto ricktoronto@fastmail.fm 151.240.53.126
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 204:441:2801:86::26:386
    lfinburg lfinburg@san.rr.com 209:2:6375:183::26:4
    edwinakennion edwinakennion@ssl.tls.cloudns.asia 172.71.154.179
    AhmedGreenleaf ahmed-ahmed@koxetu.randomxyz.life 45.136.26.91
    SelenaGaither86 selenagaither81@hell.milkgg.com 23.95.204.251
    haufpnhm haufpnhm@bekommenmail.com 120.40.130.70
    fxxnvkzl fxxnvkzl@bekommenmail.com 120.40.130.70
    JanVancouver77 sarahmartin90244u61@c.verifiedlinklist.com 151.247.185.164
    TammyGoudie2 tammygoudie38@slide.veauly.com 102.165.54.226
    CassandraBrunson cassandrabrunson87@pound.milkgg.com 154.16.69.146
    ts ts@topol.ru 120.40.130.70
    h.o.tuz.ap.o.x.i.h.e06. h.o.tuz.ap.o.x.i.h.e06.@gmail.com 95.216.68.244
    2001:100:4481:700:9:7781:55:859 2001:100:4481:700:9:7781:55:859 120.40.130.70
    vicenteyard vicenteyard@9253.scalesurge.io 104.22.17.126
    202:442:57:0:911:48:66:9294 202:442:57:0:911:48:66:9294 120.40.130.70
    Verona01D6 veronasherman32@act.milkgg.com 23.81.230.194
    DonetteSterner donette.sterner@starda-mirror505.top 72.56.188.163
    HassanHinds00 hassanhinds57@brick.pettin.com 144.48.52.31
    CathernMendoza dc.tuusps9296jaebd.comkewnqprsqwsh1lmail.jaebd.com 178.20.42.231
    bazikov.rg bazikov.rg@topol.ru 120.40.130.70
    korol.uv korol.uv@topol.ru 120.40.130.70
    bezrodnyi.ai bezrodnyi.ai@topol.ru 120.40.130.70
    kuzmina.da kuzmina.da@topol.ru 120.40.130.70
    sk sk@topol.ru 120.40.130.70
    devyatkov.ms devyatkov.ms@topol.ru 120.40.130.70
    LamontMccreary lamontmccreary30@9253.scalesurge.io 23.19.82.30
    romainemilburn2773 romainemilburn2773@qiott.com 172.69.22.86
    gushan.ty gushan.ty@topol.ru 120.40.130.70
    shenna.shenna3 shenna.shenna3@kahake.swanson.today 104.22.17.126
    yoqbqvms yoqbqvms@legenmail.com 120.40.130.70
    val val@topol.ru 120.40.130.70
    verifgas2 verifgas2@konstruksituntas.com 104.22.20.142
    THTMichele adelaidedoughty@tempr-mail.line.pm 92.253.212.219
    KelvinCarron6 kelvincarron40@nut.mxdood.com 102.165.55.20
    JordanDawkins3 dessiecarla@solstris.com 181.215.16.216
    josephmartin7301cetw josephmartin7301cetw@b.verifiedlinklist.com 196.51.95.79
    cerys.albrecht cerys.albrecht@lift.travellersrestlabs.click 172.71.159.82
    UIDFerne67561 barbaradavis3672oy3j@gsasearchengineranker.online 38.154.56.103
    pattistilwell6182 pattistilwell6182@mailmenot.io 172.69.135.14
    investor investor@coinbase.com 120.40.130.70
    justinmail justinmail@argosmail.xyz 82.22.230.27
    LukasS447690 lukastunnecliffe10@brick.pettin.com 102.165.53.105
    2804:540:15:1900:311:4:56:91 2804:540:15:1900:311:4:56:91 120.40.130.70
    WildaWhitaker michellenelson@solstris.com 223.29.254.45
    Lionel99W771 lionelsmithers13@act.milkgg.com 191.101.92.83