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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 - 16 Jan 2026 12:40 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,873
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    HwaTowle1666862 hwa.towle47@17a7.adspertsolution.online 107.172.172.43
    2607:91:176:8206:407:79:23:950 2607:91:176:8206:407:79:23:950 120.40.130.70
    WilmaThorby152 wilma-thorby99@b702.rshrthertherth.net 207.182.29.61
    2001:100:2410:600:60:59:376:7158 2001:100:2410:600:60:59:376:7158 120.40.130.70
    2001:100:2410:600:1:77:964:37 2001:100:2410:600:1:77:964:37 120.40.130.70
    2607:91:176:8206:407:79:23:950 2607:91:176:8206:407:79:23:950 120.40.130.70
    202:8108:8125:100:1:276:525:29 202:8108:8125:100:1:276:525:29 120.40.130.70
    HowardMattos9 watjat19r76@nestmailbox.com 45.33.156.97
    BradfordLegg bradfordbradford@tinege.dmail.fit 65.111.4.215
    brucechristmas8888 brucechristmas8888@anonmails.de 162.158.167.43
    2001:100:2410:600:1:77:964:37 2001:100:2410:600:1:77:964:37 120.40.130.70
    robbinwhite robbinwhite@freundin.ru 138.229.96.23
    murielle.thinardmclane murielle.thinardmclane@intusurg.com 120.40.130.70
    georgia.arnott44 georgia.arnott44@21f2.rshrthertherth.net 172.69.134.211
    brianrobinson1978 brianrobinson1978@acetylcholgh.ru 104.22.20.178
    mikkisteffen68 mikkisteffen68@enemy.veauly.com 172.71.82.147
    f4utd f4utd@goshop1888.shop 120.40.130.70
    oar oar@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    vii vii@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    brianrobinson1978 brianrobinson1978@acetylcholgh.ru 172.69.134.210
    ssv ssv@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    autokarylodz autokarylodz@poczta.onet.pl 151.243.174.43
    eame eame@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    mvk mvk@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    sas sas@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    tmv tmv@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    clint.marko.9472 clint.marko.9472@website-aces.org 45.42.88.113
    mark mark@xcape1.net 170.247.223.254
    javewew javewew@lifestyle-de.com 172.71.158.167
    lpm lpm@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    ElwoodDaughtry2 elwoodelwood@vowoxa.icew.store 65.111.4.215
    svs svs@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    vdo vdo@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    elk elk@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    npk npk@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    onl onl@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    mamedov.edgar.1992.3.3 mamedov.edgar.1992.3.3@inbox.ru 172.69.23.191
    bourses bourses@iet.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    ogn ogn@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    fsae fsae@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    iuliana-maria.udrea iuliana-maria.udrea@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    uanrbamm uanrbamm@wildbmail.com 120.40.130.70
    contact contact@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    vrf vrf@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    ivanrizada ivanrizada@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    timothycarroll2010 timothycarroll2010@acetylcholgh.ru 172.69.23.192
    agk agk@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    eprovbelwha eprovbelwha@mail.ru 104.22.20.179
    tnf tnf@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    pma pma@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    min min@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    tps tps@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    zaf zaf@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    mea mea@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    kav kav@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    shgz shgz@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    gmb gmb@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    ear ear@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    timothycarroll2010 timothycarroll2010@acetylcholgh.ru 104.22.20.179
    mau mau@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    dustinfallon dustinfallon@clubnika-play.buzz 172.71.148.160
    chris crwhite21@gmail.com 174.49.37.162
    his970 his970@exwa.org 165.231.101.165
    eshp eshp@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    LindaBonet joshuamoore691079nl@f.welcometotijuana.com 173.232.119.96
    fredriclawley7364 fredriclawley7364@bd.dns-cloud.net 172.71.154.179
    si-reseau si-reseau@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    casieleggo casieleggo@dvd.dns-cloud.net 162.158.167.44
    2605:00:9108:137:8380:82:09: 2605:00:9108:137:8380:82:09: 120.40.130.70
    2409:4042:814:96:231:458:59:3 2409:4042:814:96:231:458:59:3 120.40.130.70
    richard.labrie richard.labrie@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    65.108.125.120 65.108.125.120 37.115.189.95
    info info@eracing.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    mab mab@rmiac18.ru 120.40.130.70
    caridadmccarthy8831 caridadmccarthy8831@discardmail.com 162.158.167.44