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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 - 23 Aug 2026 7:43 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,323
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
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    GraigSchreiner0 graigschreiner96@these.veauly.com 102.165.54.52
    fnbijkalsMl fnbijkalsMl@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.62
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    MichelBlyth2 michel.blyth69@query.meettravellersrest.click 147.53.127.245
    thxpdpxdkei thxpdpxdkei@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
    DeanPeace09 dean-peace@quickanswer.wisetransferhubs.click 138.229.96.137
    statsig-sdk-releases statsig-sdk-releases@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    lxrthqlnfsl lxrthqlnfsl@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.182
    Pure766 oxqivalic@mailkolnet.com 94.23.25.75
    kwvxnjsvvei kwvxnjsvvei@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
    jb86 jb86@127.0.0.1 120.40.130.70
    UtaKincaid05 uta.kincaid12@meettravellersrest.click 142.147.109.249
    LeolaLamot donaldmiller9039yp2a@a.welcometotijuana.com 94.46.184.241
    zfkdxmnshPr zfkdxmnshPr@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.168
    KeriY961057052 keriduran69@7b0d.zouytr.xyz 217.60.126.48
    oezpwemyqMl oezpwemyqMl@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.62
    DQYMarina marinaallred16@vory.estaxy.com 152.232.221.175
    eibaciwe eibaciwe@poppmailnewr.com 54.39.18.217
    how1 how1@blogranks.top 120.40.130.70
    sgsihyqppPr sgsihyqppPr@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.168
    PhillisBoxer405 phillisboxer16@.mxdood.com 181.215.16.247
    KingDilke416 kingdilke92@contact.openbillieholiday.click 139.180.224.187
    jb86 jb86@127.0.0.1 120.40.130.70
    znathanandextz znathanandextz@126.com 208.102.51.6
    shjmwgyffMl shjmwgyffMl@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.62
    zaashleytxaxdoz zaashleytxaxdoz@126.com 68.71.245.206
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    zosgqzqqnon zosgqzqqnon@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.49
    Merrill23Z merrilltabarez41@fiber.pettin.com 23.81.230.194
    ksonlmsuoei ksonlmsuoei@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
    disclosure disclosure@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
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    brhiphfxipa brhiphfxipa@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.41
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    JeremySchweitzer jeremyschweitzer64@wisetransferhubs.click 139.180.224.177
    wilheminabeckett3793 wilheminabeckett3793@mailtech.ro 89.40.222.231
    NigelAngus89 nigelangus25@fast.veauly.com 154.16.69.250
    wilheminadenning5953 wilheminadenning5953@mailtech.ro 91.211.87.99
    tamiemountford tamiemountford@mailtech.ro 80.96.70.137
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    kwhinnery kwhinnery@openai.com 120.40.130.70
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    Life_Point udujese@mailkolnet.com 94.23.25.75
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