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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 - 4 Mar 2026 2:49 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,118
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    datenschutzbeauftragter datenschutzbeauftragter@audifon.com 120.40.130.70
    ArielBergeron5 jeffreyrobin@leantechy.xyz 196.51.252.221
    AdrienneDuong53 adrienneduong14@panel.cdfaq.com 191.101.92.60
    Ronaldtamma konstantinrovini@mail.ru 192.73.244.36
    klaudiagertrude6617 klaudiagertrude6617@adult-work.info 209.50.168.3
    akindinkudryashov6842 akindinkudryashov6842@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    aaidnttsz8330 aaidnttsz@163.com 34.67.163.201
    k0fkq k0fkq@goshop1888.shop 120.40.130.70
    Saul paulmaigua0@gmail.com 169.197.85.170
    Andre98X413 andre-andre70@luzeve.digimail.info 216.26.235.68
    202:3100:57:700:104:2635:68:8 202:3100:57:700:104:2635:68:8 120.40.130.70
    JacquesX88 huiconnor79797@seoautomationpro.com 192.126.177.184
    prosavmobi1981 prosavmobi1981@mail.ru 172.71.154.178
    walkerlandis9605 walkerlandis9605@pecinan.net 172.69.134.82
    Reta65F319 jackal-hassan350831vuo@seoautomationpro.com 23.229.120.92
    anya.genger anya.genger@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    DemiHuot6 susanmiller6261n5wt@c.budgetthailandtravel.com 112.7.130.121
    2401:4900:8833:9:834:63:5:8435 2401:4900:8833:9:834:63:5:8435 120.40.130.70
    prosavmobi1981 prosavmobi1981@mail.ru 104.22.20.234
    DerrickW12 patriciaanderson188881sx@c.budgetthailandtravel.co 192.241.84.86
    KathleenWenz5 thomaslopez1956lxir@gsasearchengineranker.com 23.229.117.220
    2406:3003:2000:15:7414:17:276:639 2406:3003:2000:15:7414:17:276:639 120.40.130.70
    KristopherBeck kristopherbeck17@scene.muzaco.com 196.196.254.21
    2804:460:791:9500:3157:65:892:426 2804:460:791:9500:3157:65:892:426 120.40.130.70
    ScarlettSells19 scarlettsells16@feed.cdfaq.com 103.221.232.103
    202:7:5188:900:28:84:419:89 202:7:5188:900:28:84:419:89 120.40.130.70
    viqdkgly viqdkgly@legenmail.com 104.22.20.234
    ZakNan677623 wngidlileqhr81@nestmailbox.com 192.126.156.107
    hassiedolan1014 hassiedolan1014@mailcatch.com 172.71.158.68
    helenfranklin helenfranklin@pw.epac.to 104.22.17.126
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ronnykoss1961 ronnykoss1961@uiscape.com 172.71.158.69
    kellyann kellyann@awsome-gadgets.com 66.85.45.7
    michellemichelle michellemichelle@vipefa.shinemail.cc 104.207.46.182
    RooseveltBeier8 rooseveltbeier.9742@me-and-u.org.uk 196.247.160.102
    ConradTitsworth wduseadvacenceulr81@nestmailbox.com 192.161.160.67
    henryhenry53 henryhenry53@gowoha.fuc.best 209.50.183.183
    Sonja6719 michaeljones81589aqw@c.budgetthailandtravel.com 196.51.33.22
    201:0:88:20:8:23:958:947 201:0:88:20:8:23:958:947 120.40.130.70
    LeonardoPapathan leonardopapathanasopoulos@me-and-u.org.uk 165.231.35.178
    LaylaManess wzuthell4mr81@nestmailbox.com 152.89.128.165
    natalia.zharkova natalia.zharkova@primcrab.ru 120.40.130.70
    nuser nuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    subjectname subjectname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    9017681320 9017681320@mail.ru 178.57.228.129
    Walter1651 markjohnson9475ud9j@d.welcometotijuana.com 77.72.80.93
    olga-o307 olga-o307@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    darrenmilson darrenmilson@anonmails.de 172.69.23.193
    camilleapplegate7969 camilleapplegate7969@freundin.ru 104.22.17.127
    9111547000 9111547000@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    osvaldomasel osvaldomasel@1secmail.com 104.22.20.235
    2804:84:3342:900:598:7:8:3754 2804:84:3342:900:598:7:8:3754 120.40.130.70
    bettienewsome16 bettienewsome16@ssl.tls.cloudns.asia 172.69.134.83
    aplodism aplodism@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    2001:68:5459:182:2450:533:15:5 2001:68:5459:182:2450:533:15:5 120.40.130.70
    chernook58 chernook58@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    oleg-krupko oleg-krupko@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    sungurov.konstantin sungurov.konstantin@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    mandrykina mandrykina@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    natalia.mokrenko natalia.mokrenko@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    mariab mariab@eurovip.club 188.130.210.142
    kukuruzo kukuruzo@lenta.ru 120.40.130.70
    valeriy valeriy@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    200:238:80:801:210:17:574:5 200:238:80:801:210:17:574:5 120.40.130.70
    igo6965 igo6965@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    michaeldavis1107ol13 michaeldavis1107ol13@b.verifiedlinklist.com 38.154.177.45
    twylaaviles2139 twylaaviles2139@tempr.email 162.158.167.133
    temaleshenko2002 temaleshenko2002@mai.ru 120.40.130.70
    a004mr97 a004mr97@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    9231009590 9231009590@sibmail.com 120.40.130.70