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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 - 21 Aug 2026 4:39 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,729
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    MilfordCarrozza milfordcarrozza32@pound.milkgg.com 154.16.69.184
    KelleyForlonge8 kelleyforlonge70@669e.topgradeoffers.com 152.232.123.176
    whatseo whatseo@webtoteam.shop 120.40.130.70
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    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    202:2455:871:600:8537:230:580:2920 202:2455:871:600:8537:230:580:2920 120.40.130.70
    byronross669 byronross669@gmail.con 120.40.130.70
    art21 art21@blogranks.top 45.133.170.113
    AlexisK464716100 liwe.ik.o4.63@gmail.com 199.34.90.34
    orenhaight39 orenhaight39@book.saiba-mais.com 196.51.10.225
    ivanfuvuso ivanfuvuso@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    cffhpagl cffhpagl@ishowfirstmail.com 64.31.20.24
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    Roberttat ni.c.o.lo.n.icolas777@gmail.com 173.239.211.89
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    newbloghi276 newbloghi276@blogranks.top 120.40.130.70
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    newbloghi276 newbloghi276@blogranks.top 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    chiclesmilmo chiclesmilmo@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    Test Test@example.org 120.40.130.70
    acdipr acdipr@example.org 120.40.130.70
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    ShondaMiddleton markmartinez2300jocs@c.travel-e-store.com 161.115.225.243
    TerriHarper terri@ramllertrucking.com 155.94.163.224
    jacksonoliveirabarbosa01 jacksonoliveirabarbosa01@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    nope nope@example.org 120.40.130.70
    lh lh@example.org 120.40.130.70
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    mail mail@example.org 120.40.130.70
    SimoneGkm williamjohnson75748bx3@gsasearchengineranker.guru 217.60.121.178
    MercedesWilfong mercedeswilfong43@fast.veauly.com 144.48.52.169
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    lynell.kastner lynell.kastner@mailtech.ro 91.211.87.63
    finance2016 finance2016@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    roystock17 roystock17@jailbreakps5.com 172.118.70.228
    KelvinHerndon michealfranklyn@anonmails.de 109.248.138.189
    Westonfam asher.dean461@gmail.com 149.5.4.229
    srghost srghost@example.org 120.40.130.70
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    jhacker jhacker@example.org 120.40.130.70
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    toby toby@elefloat.com 51.9.225.131
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    GidgetClaflin gidgetgidget@wujini.dmail.fit 77.83.27.198
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    ivanfaliso ivanfaliso@mail.ru 178.20.44.140
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    marina.hannacanuckaudio marina.hannacanuckaudio@gmail.com 38.49.180.205
    NaomiWegener593 naomiwegener49@stuff.mxdood.com 154.16.69.184
    jake jake@harakirimail.com 201:04:3:600:3079:76:37:940
    SoonVaughn77712 soonvaughn29@.mxdood.com 191.101.114.68
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