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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 - 29 Jul 2026 1:32 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,901
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    none none@example.com 120.40.130.70
    trilug trilug@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nuser nuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    joe.q.public joe.q.public@example.com 120.40.130.70
    NorbertoBeattie norberto.norberto11@jobete.water.tattoo 167.253.18.101
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    210231012014 210231012014@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Vonnie5044 liamgodinez@now.mefound.com 218.152.33.181
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    computeruser computeruser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    helm-secrets helm-secrets@example.com 120.40.130.70
    max max@example.com 120.40.130.70
    adolf adolf@example.com 120.40.130.70
    rkuhic rkuhic@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:941:100:509:58:9:516 202:1810:941:100:509:58:9:516 120.40.130.70
    nuser nuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    li.nk.s8.9.mas.t. li.nk.s8.9.mas.t.@gmail.com 5.189.203.139
    rubro rubro@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test1 test1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pablo pablo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    my.name my.name@example.com 120.40.130.70
    foobar foobar@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testj testj@example.com 120.40.130.70
    revoke revoke@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    eduardo eduardo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    stig stig@example.com 120.40.130.70
    addicted addicted@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jonathonpassmore1001 jonathonpassmore1001@hello-word-2026.store 172.69.135.14
    202:1810:925:700:559:3:9:79 202:1810:925:700:559:3:9:79 120.40.130.70
    ugway ugway@tutamail.com 120.40.130.70
    private-repo private-repo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    afaf.ahmed afaf.ahmed@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Jenni60L2713 jennigoodson35@tapu.lyvix.org 5.199.145.190
    katherina-tennant59 katherina-tennant59@jam.earnlivez.net 172.71.159.81
    grace.elston93 grace.elston93@jam.earnlivez.net 172.71.154.178
    202:1808:1:702:4172:734:37:318 202:1808:1:702:4172:734:37:318 120.40.130.70
    mill-test-user mill-test-user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    mavenleakaccount mavenleakaccount@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test-repo test-repo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    flococo flococo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ult ult@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice2 alice2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Buster8250 sarahjones620467jl@backlinks.monster 217.60.120.211
    jbeckwith jbeckwith@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    MurielParadis murielmuriel@geduco.swanson.today 216.40.74.78
    202:1810:925:700:559:3:9:79 202:1810:925:700:559:3:9:79 120.40.130.70
    Cesar76W1616270 bentleybrown@injkrea.xyz 196.51.143.252
    l.i.nks.89ma.st l.i.nks.89ma.st@gmail.com 104.22.20.143
    202:1810:904:200:4:3:26:60 202:1810:904:200:4:3:26:60 120.40.130.70
    rz rz@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    RaleighDalziel8 normandgenders7107@fbins001mail.com 45.63.19.133
    osprbhudmr osprbhudmr@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    frances-pinkney frances-pinkney@cleanhomeguard.com 172.69.23.184
    kwhinnery kwhinnery@openai.com 120.40.130.70
    ygrjsvhgen ygrjsvhgen@rambler.ru 98.159.36.14
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    osprbhudmr osprbhudmr@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    FranciscoDelator franciscofrancisco@naluvi.pos.coupons 45.145.129.115
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    kia-kia32 kia-kia32@cehuku.mailbox.mom 172.71.159.82
    newbloghi220 newbloghi220@blogranks.top 2.57.23.231
    courtney-courtney35 courtney-courtney35@zogoxi.sabo.bar 77.243.90.118
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    osprbhudmr osprbhudmr@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    HoKRdozDcHiGDfoiZCgGpygOjGLSXFpVslFeLjfcVyrMmut tomharaske@aol.com 45.84.107.55
    disclosure disclosure@openai.com 120.40.130.70