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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 - 13 Sep 2026 11:54 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,911
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    dummy9 dummy9@example.com 120.40.130.70
    beertuvia beertuvia@profitgym.co.il 120.40.130.70
    wolfseayrpi wolfseayrpi@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.182
    jean jean@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    TEST TEST@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tacofarmer tacofarmer@example.com 120.40.130.70
    palotes palotes@example.com 120.40.130.70
    example example@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alok alokpatel0922@gmail.com 103.87.58.213
    arthur arthur@example.com 120.40.130.70
    uebung uebung@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ashkelon ashkelon@profitgym.co.il 120.40.130.70
    minin minin@example.com 120.40.130.70
    111 111@example.com 120.40.130.70
    l.i.n.k.s.8.9.ma.s.t. l.i.n.k.s.8.9.ma.s.t.@gmail.com 104.28.246.128
    test1 test1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testtriad1909 testtriad1909@example.com 120.40.130.70
    kiaranester66 kiaranester66@dmxs8.com 172.71.154.169
    l.i.n.ks.8.9ma.st. l.i.n.ks.8.9ma.st.@gmail.com 104.28.246.128
    marlakraus8549 marlakraus8549@anonmails.de 172.71.159.82
    decadent decadent@example.com 120.40.130.70
    odtjhpkayot odtjhpkayot@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.62
    ashdod ashdod@profitgym.co.il 120.40.130.70
    dqhznzamhml dqhznzamhml@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
    user1 user1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testtriad909 testtriad909@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ysimard-arin ysimard-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    mark.lopez mark.lopez@example.com 120.40.130.70
    richard.labrie richard.labrie@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    Gleetyesomi Gleetyesomi@example.com 120.40.130.70
    phrixus phrixus@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testuser testuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    mftshiji-arin mftshiji-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    jonathan.dupont jonathan.dupont@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    person2 person2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dpdnknriz dpdnknriz@9we.ru 104.143.218.72
    no-email no-email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    obRhZJfCN obRhZJfCN@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lvalero-arin lvalero-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    sample sample@example.com 120.40.130.70
    anonymous.child anonymous.child@example.com 120.40.130.70
    orakiva orakiva@profitgym.co.il 120.40.130.70
    urvrpxkxyot urvrpxkxyot@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.62
    HermineKissner6 herminehermine@favaze.airmail.codes 212.119.40.61
    jwzxzzbt jwzxzzbt@analismail.com 172.71.154.168
    smith smith@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ohc ohc@example.com 120.40.130.70
    anonymous.parent anonymous.parent@example.com 120.40.130.70
    fwblbnhtnEr fwblbnhtnEr@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.49
    nonexistant nonexistant@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tvdh23 tvdh23@tvdh-webdesign.de 120.40.130.70
    montybob23 montybob23@example.com 120.40.130.70
    marc marc@example.com 120.40.130.70
    therealmctest therealmctest@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ted-schreffler14 ted-schreffler14@jam.earnlivez.net 104.22.20.56
    mario.rossi mario.rossi@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ububox ububox@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ddrmaster2 ddrmaster2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    heliav heliav@example.com 120.40.130.70
    systems systems@example.com 120.40.130.70
    BTCBuddy BTCBuddy@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test2 test2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nexux nexux@example.com 120.40.130.70
    abc abc@example.com 120.40.130.70
    carmonreda carmonreda@abidot.me 104.22.20.57