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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 - 12 May 2026 6:40 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,084
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    MarjorieSawyer c2509donaldjohnson1210oh3i@a.pattaya-mega.com 196.51.9.219
    AllenWood staurtmoody@gmail.com 185.238.231.16
    nuser nuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    subjectname subjectname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    stabgen stabgen@kirisbygood.fun 82.197.202.19
    press-tass-kavkaz press-tass-kavkaz@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    khramushins khramushins@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    press-sib press-sib@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    zyzol zyzol@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    shcherbakovd shcherbakovd@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    titovael titovael@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    eliseevaia eliseevaia@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    press-center press-center@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    dinah.mcdowall69 dinah.mcdowall69@260f.jeniferconely.site 191.102.165.166
    adv adv@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    stabgen stabgen@kirisbygood.fun 82.197.202.75
    manager manager@tass.ru 120.40.130.70
    stabgen stabgen@kirisbygood.fun 82.197.202.214
    MelvaP04016959 melvaswisher98@brick.pettin.com 154.16.69.58
    jacinto-rutledge jacinto-rutledge@260f.jeniferconely.site 120.40.130.70
    johnmoore6028rlo7 johnmoore6028rlo7@gsasearchenginerankervps.com 23.229.52.222
    2600:4809:912:9200:929:544:3:3947 2600:4809:912:9200:929:544:3:3947 120.40.130.70
    donette.spooner.4180 donette.spooner.4180@ramenbetofficial777.top 172.71.154.168
    VernellCanada johnanderson80025616@mustdoindubai.com 23.229.34.11
    NormanRarry actkathua@web.de 141.98.253.20
    spifoutonal1989 spifoutonal1989@mailopenz.com 172.69.134.83
    1hererftujiki 1hererftujiki@anonmails.de 5.196.78.175
    2gerehnujuuuik 2gerehnujuuuik@anonmails.de 5.196.78.175
    fakemail fakemail@example.org 120.40.130.70
    rsa2048 rsa2048@example.org 120.40.130.70
    jon.smith jon.smith@example.org 120.40.130.70
    jane jane@example.org 120.40.130.70
    revoke revoke@example.org 120.40.130.70
    Adrianna40L matthewmiller49147s13@gsavps.xyz 23.229.52.222
    signatures signatures@example.org 120.40.130.70
    try1 try1@example.org 120.40.130.70
    x.y x.y@example.org 120.40.130.70
    asd asd@example.org 120.40.130.70
    jhacker jhacker@example.org 120.40.130.70
    ShawnF6711 hwalucio@solstris.com 23.81.230.194
    postrex postrex@example.org 120.40.130.70
    nike4241nike nike4241nike@example.org 120.40.130.70
    bloum bloum@example.org 120.40.130.70
    test test@example.org 120.40.130.70
    testuser5 testuser5@example.org 120.40.130.70
    lh lh@example.org 120.40.130.70
    test1 test1@example.org 120.40.130.70
    mark mark@example.org 120.40.130.70
    Karen959080 karenjoiner73@put.pettin.com 191.101.114.216
    vinz16 vinz16@example.org 120.40.130.70
    rhysblamey57 rhysblamey57@allsparkrising.com 104.22.20.142
    acdipr acdipr@example.org 120.40.130.70
    f.gne.s.f.c.v. f.gne.s.f.c.v.@gmail.com 188.119.190.203
    testdude testdude@example.org 120.40.130.70
    srghost srghost@example.org 120.40.130.70
    MillaFihelly51 millafihelly82@fast.veauly.com 181.215.16.247
    mallory mallory@example.org 120.40.130.70
    adamsmith adamsmith@example.org 120.40.130.70
    mail mail@example.org 120.40.130.70
    nope nope@example.org 120.40.130.70
    bob bob@example.org 120.40.130.70
    eve-lizotte.6975 eve-lizotte.6975@tsybulko.kiev.ua 181.16.240.45
    4p48qo4jn7p 4p48qo4jn7p@kanyeomg.com 172.71.158.69
    elenalidajo elenalidajo@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    Augustus62W tedtia@solstris.com 23.95.81.223
    MichaelTog yulyagabipo@mail.ru 84.54.44.19
    Angus32J288196 angusenticknap19@issue.mxdood.com 192.161.160.116
    vuydkndihdkndyjdbfjhdkhdihfj3 vuydkndihdkndyjdbfjhdkhdihfj3@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    betty-gowins73 betty-gowins73@ff79.jackout.xyz 172.71.154.169
    vickeymccollom7213 vickeymccollom7213@anonmails.de 172.69.134.82
    fsae fsae@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    eugenialeroy2093 eugenialeroy2093@ggrainn.com 104.22.20.143
    martial-faith.tshiji martial-faith.tshiji@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    richard.labrie richard.labrie@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    si-reseau si-reseau@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70