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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 - 28 Aug 2026 7:27 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,448
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    aleksandrgafubu aleksandrgafubu@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    veracatarno-wickham veracatarno-wickham@healthypplevery.org 172.69.23.183
    rubengott1554 rubengott1554@now.mefound.com 120.40.130.70
    2001:8:710:732:00:1:29:2 2001:8:710:732:00:1:29:2 120.40.130.70
    timothy-parsons42 timothy-parsons42@jam.earnlivez.net 172.71.159.82
    jerrell-ciambellani54 jerrell-ciambellani54@take-ur-vites.org 66.146.233.190
    german.cappello34 german.cappello34@healthypplevery.org 69.58.78.67
    Jerri47Y4748772 williamjackson5702bslq@a.bestvpsfor.xyz 23.236.253.40
    s ttt208448@gmail.com 223.123.106.105
    nalmerbuntakenbersameline nalmerbuntakenbersameline@gmail.com 77.221.137.68
    klaus.paiva klaus.paiva@example.com 120.40.130.70
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    LuciaU0164 catchall@semo.glinxy.org 206.168.191.149
    nalmerbuntakenbersameline nalmerbuntakenbersameline@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    jon jon@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bogus bogus@example.com 120.40.130.70
    maggiegentle maggiegentle@peace.pwrts.shop 172.69.135.14
    bkd bkd@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ulkdnehfgfiienhfg ulkdnehfgfiienhfg@example.com 120.40.130.70
    LacyYencken lacyyencken29@.mxdood.com 191.101.114.21
    Bob Bob@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    betrexpe betrexpe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    maniac maniac@example.com 120.40.130.70
    JoyDaluz22 joydaluz66@nut.mxdood.com 154.16.69.81
    suu suu@example.com 120.40.130.70
    2001:1960:6002:102:155:7048:7618:14 2001:1960:6002:102:155:7048:7618:14 120.40.130.70
    dcn27 dcn27@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dummy12 dummy12@example.com 120.40.130.70
    A3A29F48A00103644A9D4B280AC172D3 A3A29F48A00103644A9D4B280AC172D3@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ip-172-24-0-150-root ip-172-24-0-150-root@example.com 120.40.130.70
    richardhernandez30734g1j richardhernandez30734g1j@c.mustdoindubai.com 120.40.130.70
    marie.nesterova95 marie.nesterova95@gmal.com 85.31.127.192
    nalmerbuntakenbersameline nalmerbuntakenbersameline@gmail.com 162.158.167.44
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bizarrotrinque bizarrotrinque@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alexctf alexctf@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testing testing@example.com 120.40.130.70
    20:287:8:420:6662:246:814:8558 20:287:8:420:6662:246:814:8558 120.40.130.70
    joe.john joe.john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ip-172-24-2-47-root ip-172-24-2-47-root@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    richardhernandez30734g1j richardhernandez30734g1j@c.mustdoindubai.com 120.40.130.70
    CameronRothstein cameronrothstein25@dear.mxdood.com 102.165.54.212
    elizabethsmith2681fa4e elizabethsmith2681fa4e@verifiedlinklist.com 172.71.154.178
    user01 user01@example.com 120.40.130.70
    aminetht aminetht@example.com 120.40.130.70
    sheev sheev@example.com 120.40.130.70
    usb leobisschops9@gmail.com 213.49.220.85
    pixel2 pixel2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    KeeshaBelstead0 keeshabelstead30@only.veauly.com 191.101.92.60
    imkeysersoze imkeysersoze@example.com 120.40.130.70
    machmut machmut@example.com 120.40.130.70
    DakotaWortman dakotawortman84@trick.veauly.com 102.165.55.131
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    fakegpguser4 fakegpguser4@example.com 120.40.130.70
    robertgarcia1884if04 robertgarcia1884if04@c.bestvpsfor.xyz 162.158.167.44
    k.e.vinyao11.22 k.e.vinyao11.22@gmail.com 104.22.18.53
    unfdhpktaMn unfdhpktaMn@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179