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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 Aug 2026 3:47 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,886
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    TuyetSpivakovsky tuyetspivakovsky91@trick.veauly.com 223.29.254.56
    chucolon chucolon@bd.dns-cloud.net 104.22.20.142
    shamim.almam.un2.5.7 shamim.almam.un2.5.7@gmail.com 31.171.130.136
    ClarkB. clark.digihub@outlook.com 142.147.108.210
    PenelopeHaugh thomastaylor1517uir6@b.verifiedlinklist.com 217.60.105.105
    teq.ui.l.a.timel.ord.6.66 teq.ui.l.a.timel.ord.6.66@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    u.t.idos.a.he.re68.1. u.t.idos.a.he.re68.1.@gmail.com 95.182.90.246
    53koxv6evu 53koxv6evu@lnovic.com 2606:9580:103:::01
    ClarkB. clark.digihub@outlook.com 167.160.75.181
    AliK846004439238 dfkaewrwerlymaga@needforspeeds.online 165.231.164.128
    Norma684238 jenniferanderson7440hxq2@c.blog-stuff.com 217.60.105.176
    contact contact@empower.ai 120.40.130.70
    emerydeboer2882 emerydeboer2882@autommo.net 162.158.167.43
    reginamiddleton reginamiddleton@edankeunwe.site 104.22.18.54
    20:8140:95:357:711::2:50 20:8140:95:357:711::2:50 120.40.130.70
    williamjones6110d6f5 williamjones6110d6f5@gsasearchengineranker.shop 217.60.120.18
    202:1810:16:400:2487:58:78:04 202:1810:16:400:2487:58:78:04 120.40.130.70
    HerbertCarlino4 herbertcarlino74@cold.muzaco.com 196.198.13.152
    HiltonWight1994 hilton-wight@baupo.pl 165.231.159.62
    yij.af.af.i66.0 yij.af.af.i66.0@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:16:400:2487:58:78:04 202:1810:16:400:2487:58:78:04 120.40.130.70
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    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    newbloghi191 newbloghi191@blogranks.top 120.40.130.70
    mks.mail.s.erver mks.mail.s.erver@gmail.com 31.171.130.113
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    u.tido.s.a.he.re6.81 u.tido.s.a.he.re6.81@gmail.com 172.69.23.184
    jannetteallred7640 jannetteallred7640@anonmails.de 162.158.167.44
    thedonzorro thedonzorro@facebook.com 120.40.130.70
    jame.pom.5 jame.pom.5@facebook.com 120.40.130.70
    CarmineLapp3 carmine.lapp23@erpin.org 183.197.56.214
    dorotheadarwin12 dorotheadarwin12@deny.milkgg.com 172.69.23.183
    202:3038:26:220:7846:9650:16:2826 202:3038:26:220:7846:9650:16:2826 120.40.130.70
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    gugylop gugylop@facebook.com 120.40.130.70
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    djones djones@empower.ai 120.40.130.70
    Aukki.122 Aukki.122@facebook.com 120.40.130.70
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    ayokonet ayokonet@facebook.com 120.40.130.70
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    xavier.c.coleman xavier.c.coleman@facebook.com 120.40.130.70
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    D53BDB51DB011DDAD014796A5D96DE85 D53BDB51DB011DDAD014796A5D96DE85@example.com 120.40.130.70
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    encfilebackup encfilebackup@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Geraldcousa joycemeredith@msn.com 185.220.101.22
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