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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 - 25 Jun 2026 6:35 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,344
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    XJXLilia71 liliarubeo62@brick.pettin.com 196.198.13.152
    JodyRason173373 jamesgonzalez8731tooi@b.budgetthailandtravel.com 196.51.12.109
    BernardBojorquez bernardbojorquez66@put.pettin.com 191.101.92.218
    202:267:00:4146:0:000:0:9 202:267:00:4146:0:000:0:9 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:523:700:867:17:8841:477 202:1810:523:700:867:17:8841:477 120.40.130.70
    AnnChristian annchristian23@these.veauly.com 23.95.81.223
    JacklynWoodd sarahdavis1635bfez@gsasearchengineranker.info 23.236.171.221
    irvingmcnabb2474 irvingmcnabb2474@mmds.shop 172.71.159.82
    202:1810:523:700:867:17:8841:477 202:1810:523:700:867:17:8841:477 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:53:5700:6549:5745:6748:25 202:1810:53:5700:6549:5745:6748:25 120.40.130.70
    DarkNetWophy uqebcjomlj@rambler.ru 89.124.110.221
    www.roseeze500 www.roseeze500@iclould.com 120.40.130.70
    MargieGrahamslaw marymartin2797ggfp@welcometotijuana.com 23.236.239.242
    202:267:00:4140:0:8800:0:7 202:267:00:4140:0:8800:0:7 120.40.130.70
    202:267:08:4140:0:6000:: 202:267:08:4140:0:6000:: 120.40.130.70
    202:03:82:8701:966:1:18:20 202:03:82:8701:966:1:18:20 120.40.130.70
    rich.page1444 rich.page1444@megaposty.com 172.69.22.87
    202:444:88:0:349:30:24:973 202:444:88:0:349:30:24:973 120.40.130.70
    GregorioCulley michaelsmith4065m5ie@f.welcometotijuana.com 196.51.215.249
    bridgettomlin6832 bridgettomlin6832@coin.wf 23.236.139.208
    FlorenciaReal florencia.florencia@pasiri.camels.online 178.20.212.215
    MilanFisher0 milanfisher90@keep.cdfaq.com 181.215.16.161
    m m@okadamanila.com 120.40.130.70
    Jaime jaume.planiol.febrer@gmail.com 178.139.232.244
    202:444:88:0:349:30:24:973 202:444:88:0:349:30:24:973 120.40.130.70
    Alexander jack.nd011999@gmail.com 106.219.150.179
    Augustus0296 elizabethjohnson97000l5i@gsasearchengineranker.gur 192.186.131.37
    AngelitaKeefe81 angelitakeefe10@these.veauly.com 154.16.69.81
    ramylgilmanov ramylgilmanov@mail.ru 162.158.167.122
    LisaMuecke80551 lisamuecke43@act.milkgg.com 102.165.53.166
    202:45:786:0:953:91::59 202:45:786:0:953:91::59 120.40.130.70
    brooke828491 brooke828491@gmal.com 146.19.125.67
    mirtaisaacs mirtaisaacs@oti.crossandgarlic.com 172.71.154.179
    FastSwapperruina xro.omer1st@gmail.com 104.193.252.131
    ChandraWoolls04 johnlopez6310aip0@gsasearchengineranker.support 72.57.65.173
    patricia.escano patricia.escano@okadamanila.com 120.40.130.70
    FrancescoDial13 joshuamartin8375pc59@gsasearchengineranker.guru 23.236.239.243
    jvan.manansala jvan.manansala@okadamanila.com 120.40.130.70
    ViolaLockwood robertsmith1373u7c4@pattaya-mega.com 23.236.139.220
    marlonsankt60 marlonsankt60@slow.pettin.com 104.22.17.126
    hildegardezimmerman3606 hildegardezimmerman3606@mailmenot.io 172.69.22.87
    vgrbrrfhcf vgrbrrfhcf@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    sakilopez42982 sakilopez42982@d.seoautomationpro.com 172.71.159.82
    ScotReeves0 davidmartin725pad8@swartluxury258.com 66.63.171.38
    u.f.u.k.o.pu.w.2.0 u.f.u.k.o.pu.w.2.0@gmail.com 87.199.197.47
    nannie-pitre nannie-pitre@45c5.next4.xyz 172.69.135.14
    202:1810:91:2600:9843:9048:7:100 202:1810:91:2600:9843:9048:7:100 120.40.130.70
    GrettaMiranda6 grettamiranda8@nor.mxdood.com 181.215.16.213
    AdelaidaJameson adelaidajameson63@these.veauly.com 177.234.143.121
    oliviasteven angelmariya6447@gmail.com 121.240.3.162
    AlizaRemley2 josephjohnson9386qygv@d.blog-stuff.com 196.51.20.15
    kseniyakifume kseniyakifume@mail.ru 172.69.22.86
    Rebekah17N roberttaylor8991epxr@b.budgetthailandtravel.com 196.51.17.166
    AzucenaHague628 azucena.azucena26@xuboxe.roofmail.world 193.142.36.224
    bethcorkill bethcorkill@slgdaily.xyz 104.22.17.126
    margaritorosser margaritorosser@hidebox.org 172.71.154.179
    olivertrenerry olivertrenerry@kayfilms.top 162.158.167.121
    202:1210:742:00:34:023:7:50 202:1210:742:00:34:023:7:50 120.40.130.70
    ermelindabromby4401 ermelindabromby4401@anonmails.de 172.69.22.86
    JoshuaCoxen joshuacoxen79@only.veauly.com 154.16.69.58
    nzqruxuyer nzqruxuyer@rambler.ru 79.127.175.12
    bcprloni bcprloni@legenmail.com 120.40.130.70
    piyfskgivk piyfskgivk@rambler.ru 79.127.175.12
    zdqntolwvn zdqntolwvn@rambler.ru 79.127.175.12
    FelixCrotty kelliamber@solstris.com 102.165.53.200
    Norris66K3 patriciahernandez30428567@gsasearchenginerankervps 192.126.249.139
    KathyLyb7437713 kathy-faber@0fc3.darknessfalls.space 216.131.74.36
    202:8108:8125:100:852:103:7:105 202:8108:8125:100:852:103:7:105 120.40.130.70
    202:8071:5630:930:2:52:2941:111 202:8071:5630:930:2:52:2941:111 120.40.130.70
    202:020:5:80:78:6:65:233 202:020:5:80:78:6:65:233 120.40.130.70
    202:020:5:80:78:6:65:233 202:020:5:80:78:6:65:233 120.40.130.70
    HarlanMcWilliam harlanmcwilliam58@slide.veauly.com 191.101.114.101
    WilliamMax quantca45b7@gmail.com 195.26.237.240
    SamuelHonner samuelhonner72@nor.mxdood.com 191.101.114.39
    MaybellPearce4 geoffreyfree@anonmails.de 31.12.95.44