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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 - 20 Jun 2026 7:13 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,358
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    EverettNeubauer daikimartinez5716akue@c.seoautomationpro.com 192.126.247.144
    202:03:81:00:100:99:59:7 202:03:81:00:100:99:59:7 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:830:0:265:255:860:467 202:1810:830:0:265:255:860:467 120.40.130.70
    202:020:388:328:51:624:331:8310 202:020:388:328:51:624:331:8310 120.40.130.70
    johnniefarnell johnniefarnell@thodianamdu.com 162.158.167.121
    BlytheInnes1 blytheinnes90@.mxdood.com 196.196.254.163
    hrmerchize hrmerchize@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    rosalyn-weaver rosalyn-weaver@quickreply.51tiemo.com 195.63.17.20
    7159495f7cea9e1272c9749f4ef17ed2 2996164974@qq.com 183.197.186.48
    202:1810:693:200:9002:40:75:78 202:1810:693:200:9002:40:75:78 120.40.130.70
    hoadondientu hoadondientu@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    hoaint hoaint@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    tammiewass oa1tf0qsb3k@kanyeomg.com 50.118.178.250
    hiepds hiepds@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    lisulisu l.il.ym.anderso.n.813@gmail.com 147.30.37.101
    AlisonStecker patriciamiller5026jmal@a.pattaya-mega.com 23.236.175.81
    tram tram@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    christine.vangel-johnson christine.vangel-johnson@wellsfargo.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1808:4:273:43:9:8:57 202:1808:4:273:43:9:8:57 120.40.130.70
    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 188.33.204.5
    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 188.33.205.55
    RefugiaMadewell susanmartin4769p7g1@b.verifiedlinklist.com 151.247.53.98
    ewanflick ewanflick@1mail.x24hr.com 104.22.17.126
    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 188.33.205.24
    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 188.33.204.92
    luciabarney70 luciabarney70@youth.ernsys.com 120.40.130.70
    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 188.33.204.2
    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 188.33.204.18
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    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 188.33.173.42
    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 5.173.210.37
    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 188.33.204.145
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    rosss1 rosss1@interia.pl 188.33.204.43
    phonghoang phonghoang@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
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    anhhtc anhhtc@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    hcnstoancau hcnstoancau@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    aisha-calabrese48 aisha-calabrese48@51tiemo.com 120.40.130.70
    JudyLangford3 judylangford50@talk.muzaco.com 102.165.53.105
    gitlabcicd gitlabcicd@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    JamesShay825294 jamesshay95@act.milkgg.com 191.101.92.218
    giangnt giangnt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    ff-notification ff-notification@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    leroyroan5276 leroyroan5276@0815.ru 172.71.159.82
    pay pay@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1808:5:9230:53:35:545:53 202:1808:5:9230:53:35:545:53 120.40.130.70
    202:03:870:401:9:20:7403:7485 202:03:870:401:9:20:7403:7485 120.40.130.70
    theronswearingen theronswearingen@sex.dns-cloud.net 172.71.159.82
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    emarket emarket@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:852:6200:3:7442:49:2 202:1810:852:6200:3:7442:49:2 120.40.130.70
    duongpt duongpt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    EltonWymer eltonwymer28@lower.ehomu.com 191.101.92.164
    erangifest1980 erangifest1980@mail.ru 172.69.134.70
    DenaBalsillie30 denabalsillie12@trick.veauly.com 102.165.54.227
    202:03:865:00:49:87:8:296 202:03:865:00:49:87:8:296 120.40.130.70
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    duynm duynm@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
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    BlairMonte50 blairmonte68@enemy.veauly.com 207.148.65.68
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