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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 - 25 Jan 2026 1:43 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,351
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    eric.germain eric.germain@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    info info@eracing.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    romain.couderc romain.couderc@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    t.8.272.6.7.7 t.8.272.6.7.7@gmail.com 92.119.36.119
    simon.levesque simon.levesque@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    1eser 1eser@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    ShelliEllis shelliellis19@feed.cdfaq.com 191.96.95.197
    0r6dnyvdxmrmnqdervn-gw 0r6dnyvdxmrmnqdervn-gw@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    martial-faith.tshiji martial-faith.tshiji@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    eric.germain eric.germain@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    txnzthit txnzthit@vargosmail.com 172.69.23.69
    ch.em.a.xkiri.ll ch.em.a.xkiri.ll@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    ChesterDeaton kelliamber@solstris.com 154.16.20.187
    directeur directeur@cegl.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    educ educ@cegl.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    romain.couderc romain.couderc@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    tolgacan tolgacan@em1.thematinggrounds.com 120.40.130.70
    2001:43:5405:900:5:3:887:1557 2001:43:5405:900:5:3:887:1557 120.40.130.70
    NealByers1059 marythomas66506tt2@f.seoautomationpro.com 38.154.42.92
    Lazaro0338 lazaro.ewers-1373@cryptoboss-gold.top 72.56.153.117
    ola-blomfield ola-blomfield@cffck.store 148.113.172.51
    pontdacier pontdacier@nova.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    eric.germain eric.germain@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    directeur directeur@cegl.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    RodneyLance641 rodneyrodney@duzeri.wisecook.xyz 65.111.4.48
    EddyDunne90446 eddydunne@cryptoboss-gold.top 72.56.155.63
    info info@elikos.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    edwin.schoberth edwin.schoberth@t-online.de 162.158.167.133
    lucio.lucio lucio.lucio@diwusu.television.pics 216.26.233.235
    bobby bobby@nova.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    20:3341:578:000:15:369:02:4864 20:3341:578:000:15:369:02:4864 120.40.130.70
    FlorentinaKruger sth14@blogwebsite.top 74.114.150.244
    fsae fsae@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    CharityHepler rpop-test99@feiprovbearslis.cf 178.22.31.205
    dwarakavijai dwarakavijai@savantis.com 104.22.20.178
    QuinnKash058 quinnkash@strategycritique.xyz 103.247.151.119
    gioele.agostinelli gioele.agostinelli@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    enriquetahand enriquetahand@pw.epac.to 112.51.229.159
    AlinaBaccarini alinabaccarini@ranude.mailbook.xyz 65.111.9.21
    syrianembassy.buenosaires syrianembassy.buenosaires@mofaex.gov.sy 120.40.130.70
    LavadaYef4214043 danielsmith4768o5ud@c.budgetthailandtravel.com 108.62.102.171
    Gertie7345 gertie-rossetti@careline.click 109.122.24.41
    1eser 1eser@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    richard.labrie richard.labrie@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    aaa aaa@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    polyfab polyfab@nova.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    si-reseau si-reseau@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    anthonygonzalez8146x6b5 anthonygonzalez8146x6b5@c.pattaya-mega.com 38.154.93.200
    3c502e320d.8030601 3c502e320d.8030601@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    bob bob@example.com 120.40.130.70
    romain.couderc romain.couderc@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    hectorcurrie-7344 hectorcurrie-7344@cffck.store 154.31.113.209
    periard periard@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    gigl-candidats gigl-candidats@liste.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    saouel saouel@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    bobby bobby@nova.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    magi-repec-request magi-repec-request@liste.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    jonathan.dupont jonathan.dupont@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    eric.germain eric.germain@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    lvalero-arin lvalero-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    2001:0:5281:101:186:4101:50:575 2001:0:5281:101:186:4101:50:575 120.40.130.70
    pal-marcell.rencsik pal-marcell.rencsik@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    mftshiji-arin mftshiji-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    ysimard-arin ysimard-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    2800:40:5:30:186:219:429:4273 2800:40:5:30:186:219:429:4273 120.40.130.70
    Zac65Z96716 zac-zac@kurobu.sweetmom.cv 209.50.173.252
    info info@eracing.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    2001:0:4142:257:900:438:847:6230 2001:0:4142:257:900:438:847:6230 120.40.130.70
    ChanaWedding wsomacinna0qr75@nestmailbox.com 64.188.5.86
    2001:0:4521:279:1:117:802:5483 2001:0:4521:279:1:117:802:5483 120.40.130.70
    c.h.em.ax.ki.r.il.l c.h.em.ax.ki.r.il.l@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    opensource opensource@eracing.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    eric.germain eric.germain@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    0r6dnyvdxmrmnqdervn-gw 0r6dnyvdxmrmnqdervn-gw@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    2800:810:40:65:17:54::379 2800:810:40:65:17:54::379 120.40.130.70