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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 - 1 Sep 2026 7:27 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,501
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
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    ivanfaliso ivanfaliso@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    epkazvenfKr epkazvenfKr@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.182
    LionelHartwell7 lionelhartwell@515511.xyz 47.237.172.76
    EWTJamal0264532 shantaedusty@solstris.com 102.165.54.52
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    josephmartinez7724xex8 josephmartinez7724xex8@c.bestvpsfor.xyz 172.69.23.119
    JerrodBoxall elisaberry@veauly.com 102.165.53.34
    yosic yosic@super-pharm.co.il 120.40.130.70
    EverettSalazar3 everettsalazar49@stuff.mxdood.com 223.29.254.158
    GordonCaird7350 susanjohnson2618zcm7@a.mustdoindubai.com 64.188.12.75
    yosic yosic@super-pharm.co.il 120.40.130.70
    Daniel13 camdenrichards68@gmail.com 2600:655:190:110:655:282:6:645
    gxmc gxmc@xmc.pl 172.69.23.120
    MamieSilvia79 mamiesilvia45@fiber.pettin.com 102.165.55.238
    RomaKalman9537 dellabrookshire@anonmails.de 104.28.212.131
    cjfydpzwe cjfydpzwe@govtopshop.online 157.22.92.35
    jonas-jonas jonas-jonas@jafako.uknews.help 104.22.20.235
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    hungwooten hungwooten@gsa.fghe.store 172.69.23.119
    RositaDeboer903 vinceclarita@veauly.com 102.165.54.52
    elizabethhernandez8108zirx elizabethhernandez8108zirx@c.bestvpsfor.xyz 104.22.18.53
    FrancineFitzRoy francinefitzroy77@hell.milkgg.com 181.215.16.216
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    TruistBankapplogin mariewales9235@anonmails.de 188.130.143.51
    kqacvtkmyKr kqacvtkmyKr@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.182
    pegikyabxki pegikyabxki@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
    LilaBattle208 lilabattle@515511.xyz 47.237.172.76
    mxsbbnufxKr mxsbbnufxKr@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.182
    ngupznueqki ngupznueqki@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
    ftc.dwc502.onmicrosoft ftc.dwc502.onmicrosoft@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    GenaSdk678338683 claudeelouise@veauly.com 154.16.69.146
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    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    HaleyStapylton2 haleystapylton42@slide.veauly.com 102.165.54.226
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    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
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    wimxgibabki wimxgibabki@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
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    RomeoWalthall8 romeowalthall28@fiber.pettin.com 181.215.16.213
    biblio.publications biblio.publications@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    GuillermoPolley guillermopolley.7291@wukonggame.cc 103.204.108.168
    AguedaPurcell9 agueda-purcell100@cc.openbillieholiday.click 149.20.242.69
    GayFinnan042 gayfinnan72@yell.milkgg.com 196.198.13.159
    MarkM mark.mucher@gmail.com 99.184.195.222
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
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    Teodoro78R audreybuddy@veauly.com 102.165.55.131
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    RubyeOrellana63 kristeenwinifred@solstris.com 154.16.69.250
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    john john@needemail.com 120.40.130.70
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    AbbeyKeyser4410 abbeykeyser@meettravellersrest.click 158.62.210.128
    svetlanazakipe svetlanazakipe@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    carrn 1121@truemotor.ru 45.9.13.206
    DamionMerrick2 damion-merrick@contact.openbillieholiday.click 139.180.224.131
    AngelicaZ17 tedtia@solstris.com 181.215.16.219
    asm asmiller11@googlemail.com 200:238:5392:301:5013:251:979:1616
    serega201997 serega201997@yandex.ru 128.71.224.195
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    LoriYem791 loriclemons58@deny.milkgg.com 102.165.53.166
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    sdaa sdaa@webtoteam.shop 120.40.130.70
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    sdaa sdaa@webtoteam.shop 120.40.130.70
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