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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 - 22 Apr 2026 3:43 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,142
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
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    EdwinaCarstensen edwinacarstensen52@list.cdfaq.com 45.125.245.141
    MilliePalmer3 milliepalmer21@just.cdfaq.com 196.196.254.21
    warrenosterhagen22 warrenosterhagen22@tapi.xylzen.com 104.22.20.143
    charleshernandez5296ezzm charleshernandez5296ezzm@gsasearchengineranker.sho 172.71.158.69
    DebbieZ31264 debbie.loflin-140@cheapwinner.com 223.74.110.140
    kraigdagostino5361 kraigdagostino5361@mailgg.org 172.71.158.69
    z.a.m.o.k.pet.r.ovsky2023 z.a.m.o.k.pet.r.ovsky2023@gmail.com 158.173.155.196
    michaelthomas2447mzf michaelthomas2447mzf@b.pattaya-mega.com 107.172.55.54
    svetlana.kulikova svetlana.kulikova@bezant.ru 120.40.130.70
    202:420:231:6840:102:391::54 202:420:231:6840:102:391::54 120.40.130.70
    donaldmoore8016c2rs donaldmoore8016c2rs@b.verifiedlinklist.com 104.22.20.143
    gizevu gizevu@polandychart.com 94.23.25.75
    blakerascon blakerascon@kudagacor.fun 172.69.134.83
    udzqhxms udzqhxms@polosmail.com 46.246.34.10
    merridie merridie@cosmicbridge.site 104.22.17.127
    aliza-stover aliza-stover@tinygo.top 151.240.182.111
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    bellaeasterby bellaeasterby@9e5d.getir.space 104.22.17.127
    JonathanDenton7 ewanlucretia@soulvow.com 196.196.253.94
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    JerekioxInvix5 rons@bhphoto.com 45.147.234.214
    homergillespie42 homergillespie42@kudagacor.fun 172.71.154.178
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ramonitakellow ramonitakellow@anonmails.de 172.71.158.68
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    lanecrowe lanecrowe@imhotester.forum 178.171.43.152
    chasealbino chasealbino@anonmails.de 162.158.167.133
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