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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 Aug 2026 1:55 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,926
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    1beffeessd 1beffeessd@anonmails.de 209.50.191.134
    Matilda0768 matildashiels99@trick.veauly.com 191.101.114.223
    amandabezerra.dasilva04 amandabezerra.dasilva04@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    wggdcxtw wggdcxtw@blackfirsta.com 120.40.130.70
    krasnhello krasnhello@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    pawjldpcosr pawjldpcosr@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.49
    j.e.n.n.i.elu9.7 j.e.n.n.i.elu9.7@gmail.com 67.218.4.31
    bbgyqqcynxhrtbepqt bbgyqqcynxhrtbepqt@kjkpc.net 120.40.130.70
    ydiismlgfw ydiismlgfw@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    rhys-giffen rhys-giffen@181d.scalesurge.io 172.241.142.19
    2604:309:27:300:3160:701:98:089 2604:309:27:300:3160:701:98:089 120.40.130.70
    ycgkicmsmj ycgkicmsmj@rambler.ru 98.159.36.25
    krasnhello krasnhello@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    luannbrook luann-brookes@mailtech.ro 91.211.87.39
    ycgkicmsmj ycgkicmsmj@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    LaneLoe13908013 lane-lane@zuwure.new-mail.info 194.70.234.19
    amandabezerra.dasilva04 amandabezerra.dasilva04@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
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    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
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    bobbyjones bobbyjones@example.com 120.40.130.70
    eggshell eggshell@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    careers careers@coderabbit.ai 120.40.130.70
    ksniezka ksniezka@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testsigner testsigner@example.com 120.40.130.70
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
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    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    D53BDB51DB011DDAD014796A5D96DE85 D53BDB51DB011DDAD014796A5D96DE85@example.com 120.40.130.70
    riczat riczat@example.com 120.40.130.70
    joe.hacker joe.hacker@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    zespol zespol@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test1 test1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jon jon@example.com 120.40.130.70
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    example example@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Penis Penis@Example.Com 120.40.130.70
    demo demo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    carol carol@example.com 120.40.130.70
    MickeyDrayton12 barbaragarcia7533k78o@d.welcometotijuana.com 81.92.194.245
    mdseop mdseop@webtoteam.shop 120.40.130.70
    bob.smith bob.smith@example.com 120.40.130.70
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    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    person1 person1@example.com 120.40.130.70
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    droca droca@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user01 user01@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ivanov ivanov@example.com 120.40.130.70
    NatashaMacias9 natashamacias60@put.pettin.com 154.16.69.250
    uvlndnztvh uvlndnztvh@rambler.ru 98.159.36.25
    l.i.nks.89ma.s.t l.i.nks.89ma.s.t@gmail.com 67.159.17.51
    ydiismlgfw ydiismlgfw@rambler.ru 98.159.36.25
    l.ink.s89mast. l.ink.s89mast.@gmail.com 67.159.17.51
    pdek pdek@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dummy6 dummy6@example.com 120.40.130.70
    unfklvzdfn unfklvzdfn@rambler.ru 98.159.36.25
    dave dave@example.com 120.40.130.70
    gestion-noms-de-domaine gestion-noms-de-domaine@edf.fr 120.40.130.70
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    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    practica practica@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testriad1 testriad1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    fakemoney007 fakemoney007@example.com 120.40.130.70
    amandabezerra.dasilva04 amandabezerra.dasilva04@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    YqFVtLLzRlqfgkVanfWHoSdXWYyxywPJLiGugiVQHlHigI bmtrack@charter.net 88.80.26.4
    thomaz thomaz@example.com 120.40.130.70