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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 - 6 Feb 2026 7:59 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,478
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    giulio.cervera giulio.cervera@fastwebnet.it 120.40.130.70
    SallieEasterbroo sheldon@awsome-gadgets.com 23.229.116.177
    gabriele.monzini gabriele.monzini@fastwebnet.it 120.40.130.70
    IsraelSlate74 marcoschulz73801a0o1@seoautomationpro.com 155.94.190.24
    faustroll faustroll@fastwebnet.it 120.40.130.70
    ovidiu.pirvu ovidiu.pirvu@fastwebnet.it 120.40.130.70
    Connor72R08471 bettyramos@leantechy.xyz 154.30.213.74
    ygteumab ygteumab@legenmail.com 154.195.108.155
    donaldwhitis2608 donaldwhitis2608@8.dnsabr.com 172.69.134.210
    alinawillingham5464 alinawillingham5464@termgame.net 104.22.17.127
    Tawer3soboack oyucofigo6.4@gmail.com 138.201.23.13
    richardanderson89330p0a richardanderson89330p0a@verifiedlinklist.com 172.69.134.210
    andrea.cavenago andrea.cavenago@fastwebnet.it 120.40.130.70
    biella biella@fastwebnet.it 120.40.130.70
    cliffmace cliffmace@anonmails.de 185.166.163.175
    jasminedunning jasminedunning@anonmails.de 104.22.20.179
    KerrieWalton69 stevengarcia7493at3v@budgetthailandtravel.com 108.62.102.240
    geraldunderwood4770 geraldunderwood4770@now.mefound.com 104.22.20.178
    rufusodowd8215 rufusodowd8215@mailmenot.io 172.69.23.194
    paolosesto paolosesto@fastwebnet.it 120.40.130.70
    alexswitz8645 alexswitz@126.com 154.194.114.145
    aisaacshtolzoz4987 aisaacshtolzoz@hotmail.com 154.196.71.236
    inga34 inga34@hexhex.site 144.124.244.214
    epicgamesextra.refunds epicgamesextra.refunds@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    user659125 user659125@virgilian.com 120.40.130.70
    o.t.otu.fav752 o.t.otu.fav752@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    oyucofigo6.4 oyucofigo6.4@gmail.com 138.201.23.13
    vinci.tony vinci.tony@fastwebnet.it 176.8.89.36
    fredmcclemans5945 fredmcclemans5945@ssl.tls.cloudns.asia 172.69.23.194
    2806:107:22:16:591:7863:284:83 2806:107:22:16:591:7863:284:83 120.40.130.70
    2803:200:216:38:9844:5625:7759:24 2803:200:216:38:9844:5625:7759:24 120.40.130.70
    epi.huqus2.8.8 epi.huqus2.8.8@gmail.com 162.158.167.98
    daisycallinan daisycallinan@1mail.x24hr.com 104.247.115.254
    mike mike@monkeydigital.co 120.40.130.70
    pe.t.r.t.a.ta.rs.k.yh.ome.w.ork19.8.72.2.0.5. pe.t.r.t.a.ta.rs.k.yh.ome.w.ork19.8.72.2.0.5.@gmai 45.91.22.86
    2804:14:7935:8051:14:622:94:860 2804:14:7935:8051:14:622:94:860 120.40.130.70
    2800:4:226:8900:80:53:803:3025 2800:4:226:8900:80:53:803:3025 120.40.130.70
    natulya.fedosova.96 natulya.fedosova.96@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    202:3100:5:300:4:78:445:10 202:3100:5:300:4:78:445:10 120.40.130.70
    jack-vinci jack-vinci@cc.healthroutinenail.click 104.22.17.126
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pywatchftp.test.dsa pywatchftp.test.dsa@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Carinraf ekryukov48148701@rambler.ru 135.181.119.248
    caroot caroot@example.com 120.40.130.70
    valid.email valid.email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    poppy poppy@example.com 120.40.130.70
    trusted-identity-login-services-group trusted-identity-login-services-group@uber.com 120.40.130.70
    testtriad1909 testtriad1909@example.com 120.40.130.70
    20:26:9509:656:120:236:27:4797 20:26:9509:656:120:236:27:4797 120.40.130.70
    enigma enigma@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    taburet taburet@example.com 120.40.130.70
    third-party third-party@example.com 120.40.130.70
    someonesemail someonesemail@example.com 120.40.130.70
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    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    hans hans@example.com 120.40.130.70
    revoker revoker@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testkey testkey@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dummy2 dummy2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    trash trash@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jrhodes jrhodes@example.com 120.40.130.70
    linux linux@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    name name@example.com 120.40.130.70
    noway noway@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test2 test2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    thisisatest thisisatest@example.com 120.40.130.70
    cas cas@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bkd bkd@example.com 120.40.130.70
    miau miau@example.com 120.40.130.70