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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 - 3 Sep 2026 3:20 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,077
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    FrancisBarton6 thomasjackson9218bpkq@c.mustdoindubai.com 72.57.70.98
    MercedesB35 mercedesvandegrift80@act.milkgg.com 102.165.53.166
    JoesphJohns1 joesphjohns13@fast.veauly.com 23.81.230.194
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    Celeste29P sandralucretia@veauly.com 102.165.53.34
    rupreskono rupreskono@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    ADVCharla4 danielmoore5179s7dn@b.gsavps.xyz 66.63.183.46
    Aileen43U7749723 anthonygarcia3528dnf9@a.mustdoindubai.com 66.63.178.187
    jamison.alaniz jamison.alaniz@megaposty.com 172.71.154.179
    bstout bstout@facebook.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    isabella-hayward isabella-hayward@healthypplevery.org 203.19.38.114
    202:598:64:800::302:381 202:598:64:800::302:381 120.40.130.70
    daniela.elger daniela.elger@t-online.de 93.114.249.140
    mery mery@example.com 120.40.130.70
    mill-test-user mill-test-user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    vault vault@example.com 120.40.130.70
    JaneRivard janerivard75@toy.pettin.com 102.165.54.7
    audrey-dupont37 audrey-dupont37@jam.earnlivez.net 172.69.135.13
    deh7335 deh7335@gmail.com 173.239.213.30
    MaryjoWellman8 paulsmith94701skh@d.welcometotijuana.com 23.236.248.193
    nmr omgnapika@gmail.com 202:0:3802:6512:560:46:643:07
    zegeobei zegeobei@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    Manoel manoeljunior2023@outlook.com 201.23.114.50
    jimmymenk2 jimmymenk80@gmail.com 207.244.71.84
    KatriceGoldfinch katrice-goldfinch@9aea.zouytr.xyz 217.60.126.239
    RussellDiesendor sarahgonzalez11560nod@a.welcometotijuana.com 152.232.52.126
    Sebastin sebasmelero@yahoo.es 79.117.192.163
    Saba xorbaladzeesabaaa@gmail.com 94.240.254.107
    ganievamasha199326 ganievamasha199326@inbox.ru 172.69.194.11
    michell.cheongcheokhong michell.cheongcheokhong@lolgo.cc 181.177.111.157
    vecanoda vecanoda@karamelka-mail.online 109.248.205.196
    Priscilla92V pingsmith69043@d.seoautomationpro.com 94.229.71.89
    PrinceLedb hkfqwmlaic@rambler.ru 109.106.137.5
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    VickiWroe0991 vickiwroe68@slide.veauly.com 102.165.53.200
    wapeocontgi wapeocontgi@mail.ru 195.2.78.191
    EdmundoHoliday8 danielmartinez40909vdw@c.mustdoindubai.com 64.188.13.188
    rewardcenteroffers.com rewardcenteroffers.com 120.40.130.70
    jessicahernandez9702vgav jessicahernandez9702vgav@c.budgetthailandtravel.co 104.22.20.143
    Wandaetews MaydayRoancar@daqb.info 91.193.252.142
    ConsueloDaws2 maurinenereida@veauly.com 102.165.54.4
    sxqhmpmu sxqhmpmu@bekommenmail.com 120.40.130.70
    julieta-sperling julieta-sperling@jam.earnlivez.net 172.69.135.13
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jungu45087 vexaro@rethinkmail.com 106.219.157.49
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    xrumer23baito xrumer23baito@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    david.xia david.xia@anthropic.com 120.40.130.70
    arin arin@anthropic.com 120.40.130.70
    4941 4941@farironalds.com 45.74.3.79
    davidsp davidsp@anthropic.com 120.40.130.70
    michaelcohen michaelcohen@anthropic.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    davidsp davidsp@anthropic.com 120.40.130.70
    mikel-boswell mikel-boswell@enquiry.usewisetransfer.click 104.22.20.142
    roccocritchfield roccocritchfield@discard.email 104.22.20.142
    jlgarcia jlgarcia@officedepot.com.mx 120.40.130.70
    jsanchez jsanchez@officedepot.com.mx 120.40.130.70
    EldonLafleur111 eldonlafleur35@yell.milkgg.com 223.29.254.45
    clarencebelisario8899 clarencebelisario8899@trashmailr.com 103.204.111.178
    ShellyGuilfoyle shellyguilfoyle45@dear.mxdood.com 102.165.55.238
    roccocritchfield roccocritchfield@discard.email 172.71.159.81
    adrian.valencia adrian.valencia@officedepot.com.mx 120.40.130.70
    Lilla210301 wvettarolfr94@nestmailbox.com 152.232.157.33
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70