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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 - 2 Aug 2026 5:49 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,037
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    Thomaseus cliftoncass1997@polosmail.com 104.28.214.125
    2001:410:305:2100::479 2001:410:305:2100::479 120.40.130.70
    DesmondPattison desmondpattison50@brick.pettin.com 223.29.254.158
    seanoz16 seanoz16@el4110.adm32.mail-exchangehub.today 192.42.116.109
    SamuelBaips yourmail@gmail.com 144.172.107.72
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    o.n.h.a.x.x.m.e o.n.h.a.x.x.m.e@gmail.com 31.171.130.29
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ttttt ttttt@example.com 120.40.130.70
    cynthia.loewy cynthia.loewy@healthypplevery.org 199.116.112.6
    subjectname subjectname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    NydiaGibbs nydia-nydia20@huxoti.newgang.info 162.252.55.194
    diogene diogene@example.com 120.40.130.70
    rupert.klee rupert.klee@example.com 120.40.130.70
    revoked revoked@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testkey testkey@example.com 120.40.130.70
    usjdiri usjdiri@example.com 120.40.130.70
    aurel.test aurel.test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    herp herp@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tanaka tanaka@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bob bob@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jamesk jamesk@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bobby bobby@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user02 user02@example.com 120.40.130.70
    OlenShimizu5 olenshimizu20@only.veauly.com 191.101.114.223
    name2 name2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user03 user03@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testxxx testxxx@example.com 120.40.130.70
    25CAEF8CF420DCA209CE92A5A0833B02 25CAEF8CF420DCA209CE92A5A0833B02@example.com 120.40.130.70
    infosec infosec@example.com 120.40.130.70
    solrodar solrodar@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testQB testQB@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    taroyamada taroyamada@example.com 120.40.130.70
    James James@example.com 120.40.130.70
    TestUser TestUser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    example example@example.com 120.40.130.70
    martin martin@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    example13x example13x@example.com 120.40.130.70
    helm-secrets-projecty helm-secrets-projecty@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tj tj@example.com 120.40.130.70
    two two@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john.smith john.smith@example.com 120.40.130.70
    AnonymousBitcoiner AnonymousBitcoiner@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testkey1659 testkey1659@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Gooner2765 Gooner2765@proton.me 2600:880:2008:730:2413:7823::0
    hs01 hs01@example.com 120.40.130.70
    spsmo spsmo@seznam.cz 120.40.130.70
    DominiqueChabril dominiquechabrillan29@keep.cdfaq.com 191.101.114.220
    ben ben@example.com 120.40.130.70
    LeonelSartori6 leonelsartori29@put.pettin.com 102.165.54.4
    antoon antoon@example.com 120.40.130.70
    o.r.uma.h.e.r173 o.r.uma.h.e.r173@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    charlesopoz7107 charlesopoz@126.com 51.75.206.209
    brightme brightme@email.com 2600:1702:541:6810:972:6:10:15
    aemigooglet2733 aemigooglet@vip.163.com 12.50.107.221
    solvaltiva solvaltiva@tutamail.com 120.40.130.70
    Albertsef bkgkwxhx@duhastmail.com 151.243.153.157
    wolfrifle165555 wolfrifle165555@example.com 120.40.130.70
    invalid invalid@example.com 120.40.130.70
    marcinw marcinw@example.com 120.40.130.70
    randomemailfake randomemailfake@example.com 120.40.130.70
    srinivas.ashok srinivas.ashok@example.com 120.40.130.70
    xyz xyz@example.com 120.40.130.70