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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 - 20 May 2026 4:23 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,077
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    Sebastian samuedo.1@gmail.com 20:583:003:700:3405:2:75:6
    @news.sellmyhouseprivately.net.au 120.40.130.70
    sindicatofarmaciajuarez sindicatofarmaciajuarez@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    202:3100:53:1300:28:54:368:51 202:3100:53:1300:28:54:368:51 120.40.130.70
    taneshanadine taneshanadine@veauly.com 172.69.23.194
    qjviorbxzKr qjviorbxzKr@kavkazmaz.ru 172.71.154.179
    mmph77 mmph77@blogwebsite.top 74.114.150.97
    pawu.b.a.l.e89.2. pawu.b.a.l.e89.2.@gmail.com 95.216.68.244
    SharylMcGuffog sharylmcguffog92@act.milkgg.com 181.215.16.161
    cassiecastrejon cassiecastrejon@asia.dnsabr.com 104.223.4.210
    Zelma31826040 tedtia@solstris.com 191.101.114.216
    blogtrek blogtrek@movietut.xyz 120.40.130.70
    denis997 denis997@casinotds.xyz 172.71.154.178
    margaretteutter margaretteutter@anonmails.de 45.92.125.237
    HEOKattie8 egor.rodionov@casinotds.xyz 115.167.65.58
    ukrainiandefensedevelopment ukrainiandefensedevelopment@kse.ua 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:90:800:617:61:142:4936 202:1810:90:800:617:61:142:4936 120.40.130.70
    kbbbnrrbwv kbbbnrrbwv@rambler.ru 138.219.122.189
    singhisking0987654321420 singhisking0987654321420@gmail.com 2600:387::31::6
    ringvoconhai1986 ringvoconhai1986@mailopenz.com 162.158.167.134
    sonyagoode47 sonyagoode47@only.veauly.com 172.71.158.68
    SebastianCpq sebastianblosseville@eldeninfo.xyz 209.127.28.183
    202:1810:90:800:617:61:142:4936 202:1810:90:800:617:61:142:4936 120.40.130.70
    blhl31 blhl31@hotmaI.com 2806:230:2026:25:146:7939:36:
    rankseowo rankseowo@webtoteam.shop 172.71.154.179
    plroibam plroibam@bethcampbell.biz 120.40.130.70
    thisistotallyathrowaway42069 thisistotallyathrowaway42069@gmail.com 47.6.162.241
    jorgeautry10 jorgeautry10@sales.gatewaykreis.click 190.123.219.227
    ConradStreeter1 conradstreeter.8167@eldeninfo.xyz 209.127.28.183
    202:1810:90:800:617:61:142:4936 202:1810:90:800:617:61:142:4936 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:9522:5600:5453:451:3945:5957 202:1810:9522:5600:5453:451:3945:5957 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:9576:100:7084:134:8658:39 202:1810:9576:100:7084:134:8658:39 120.40.130.70
    milescheek2767 milescheek2767@zhoufan160.techlaw-tap.xyz 120.40.130.70
    thomassmith6616youq thomassmith6616youq@verifiedlinklist.com 64.188.3.78
    TysonWerner themit888@mail.ru 67.201.59.70
    202:1810:9576:100:7084:134:8658:39 202:1810:9576:100:7084:134:8658:39 120.40.130.70
    AshleeFullerton donaldbrown9097oesl@gsasearchengineranker.shop 192.126.206.24
    DarnellKendrick darnellkendrick22@hell.milkgg.com 154.16.69.173
    202:1810:8582:3600:82:28:96:518 202:1810:8582:3600:82:28:96:518 120.40.130.70
    Awesome smithnelly566@gmail.com 67.213.208.7
    heribertomelendez heribertomelendez@iptakedownusa.com 172.69.134.84
    leathahendrix leathahendrix@freundin.ru 120.40.130.70
    RoscoeBarajas50 roscoebarajas3@.mxdood.com 181.215.16.219
    FredricScruggs fredricscruggs6690@emailnetworkxyz.shop 138.94.217.115
    WMMNickolas nickolasvolz12@only.veauly.com 102.165.54.7
    mmph21 mmph21@blogwebsite.top 93.157.29.248
    VonCrombie715 voncrombie10@talk.muzaco.com 196.198.13.165
    AlphonseLieb1 myrtleleila@solstris.com 103.221.232.229
    a.m.al7.5g.e.nricks. a.m.al7.5g.e.nricks.@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:1417:6300:827:383:5578:380 202:1810:1417:6300:827:383:5578:380 120.40.130.70
    202:267:00:4140:0:4800:0: 202:267:00:4140:0:4800:0: 120.40.130.70
    FaustoAlderson juliennedakota@solstris.com 45.125.245.141
    CaridadWhitis3 caridadwhitis81@f7b1.childrenandadhd.com 38.154.99.163
    jacqueline.wallace jacqueline.wallace@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    dsk606reof dsk606reof@roulette-analyser.com 172.69.23.193
    evadarcy evadarcy@anonmails.de 162.158.167.133
    shanacarlton8062 shanacarlton8062@mailcatch.com 172.69.23.194
    info info@a7.ru 120.40.130.70
    israel.jarvis49 israel.jarvis49@4048.scalesurge.io 104.22.20.142
    202:1810:9561:1600:989:41:33:53 202:1810:9561:1600:989:41:33:53 120.40.130.70
    2001:100:84:6100:65:846:58:7979 2001:100:84:6100:65:846:58:7979 120.40.130.70
    werso076400iu werso076400iu@rambler.ru 85.237.212.251
    finorders finorders@a7.ru 120.40.130.70
    lilianamattox40 lilianamattox40@brivex.zerivo.eu 120.40.130.70
    stepan.gusev458 stepan.gusev458@casinotds.xyz 149.202.84.95
    RonnieWilliamson Ronniewilliamsonauthor@gmail.com 172.56.211.67
    weldon-mcnamee3398 weldon-mcnamee3398@fpstipscentral.xyz 120.40.130.70
    irinazavona irinazavona@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    ivannikov.kaz ivannikov.kaz@mail.ru 178.157.146.217
    202:468:12:0:5141:8:267:7 202:468:12:0:5141:8:267:7 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:50:00:578:61:172:9298 202:1810:50:00:578:61:172:9298 120.40.130.70
    zlerijohol zlerijohol@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    GarryRouse817 josephsmith62162fuw@e.welcometotijuana.com 2.56.51.239
    202:464:873:0:54:245:390:65 202:464:873:0:54:245:390:65 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:50:00:578:61:172:9298 202:1810:50:00:578:61:172:9298 120.40.130.70
    mapril.maia mapril.maia@jfpe.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    BrigidaGibney leonreva@solstris.com 102.165.53.34
    augustinaoberle augustinaoberle@allsparkrising.com 172.69.134.84
    sallykallas37 sallykallas37@put.pettin.com 172.71.158.69
    hiltonzaleski2 hiltonzaleski2@pound.milkgg.com 172.69.134.84
    cl.aud.i.abandman.n8.3 cl.aud.i.abandman.n8.3@gmail.com 51.210.32.231