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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 - 9 Apr 2026 9:26 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,333
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    sabinabodenwieser sabinabodenwieser@anonmails.de 172.69.23.194
    kristinbowes kristinbowes@basebuykey.com 45.3.36.205
    shari-prendiville29 shari-prendiville29@3d68.catche1.com 162.158.167.133
    anibal-surratt8363 anibal-surratt8363@cryptoboss995.top 162.158.167.133
    malik personelwatch@gmail.com 94.237.34.41
    kristianroper kristianroper@8.dnsabr.com 172.69.134.83
    gmlhxups gmlhxups@legenmail.com 64.31.20.22
    matthewbrown4681pifo matthewbrown4681pifo@f.welcometotijuana.com 66.63.185.103
    karenchristenson8185 karenchristenson8185@mailmenot.io 104.22.17.127
    2607:91:7:5:3:651:6803:4 2607:91:7:5:3:651:6803:4 120.40.130.70
    juanperez juanperez@rus-china.travel 191.102.176.119
    mnew3 mnew3@blogwebsite.top 45.8.255.86
    loriballard1982 loriballard1982@znemail.com 120.40.130.70
    theoaunger theoaunger@edumomtalk.com 188.163.49.58
    joshuasmith4394pk1u joshuasmith4394pk1u@budgetthailandtravel.com 104.22.20.234
    RichardLab danilovjuralq6714@rambler.ru 135.181.119.248
    arleenbelue66 arleenbelue66@tupu.lyvix.org 104.22.17.127
    sianhunter sianhunter@live.com.au 2001:8004:6721:11:794:52:15:6
    elvabrower2762 elvabrower2762@hidebox.org 104.22.20.234
    recruiting recruiting@bigbear.ai 120.40.130.70
    2geretyhhuji 2geretyhhuji@anonmails.de 120.40.130.70
    investors investors@bigbear.ai 120.40.130.70
    media media@bigbear.ai 120.40.130.70
    evento evento@voxregmail.online 120.40.130.70
    cugnyrnfbsr cugnyrnfbsr@ventura17.ru 120.40.130.70
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    ksxmokkpasr ksxmokkpasr@ventura17.ru 120.40.130.70
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