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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 - 5 Jul 2025 4:37 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,902
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    tienda.049 tienda.049@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.022 tienda.022@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.178 tienda.178@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.151 tienda.151@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    GertrudeMeadows lavonbeem3751@discardmail.com 45.145.118.95
    tienda.249 tienda.249@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.212 tienda.212@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.168 tienda.168@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    DorineTerrill fredquinonez6105@freundin.ru 196.51.204.238
    tienda.298 tienda.298@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    BarryCornelius braydenodum5171@discardmail.com 188.130.221.152
    tienda.222 tienda.222@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.004 tienda.004@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.229 tienda.229@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.238 tienda.238@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.174 tienda.174@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    juliet juliet@d.dontstress.online 170.199.229.106
    babltiga babltiga@starpostbox.com 57.129.24.84
    alxxla81 alxxla81@uniquemailx.com 57.129.24.111
    FlorSsx27695 catchall@dhanaramarine.com 14.1.78.62
    tienda.194 tienda.194@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.149 tienda.149@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    202:020:544:89:2889:478:7:163 202:020:544:89:2889:478:7:163 120.40.130.70
    tienda.110 tienda.110@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    tienda.143 tienda.143@superissste.gob.mx 120.40.130.70
    Latosha3423 latoshaborovansky15@wild.ehomu.com 131.108.19.66
    202:020:544:89:2889:478:7:163 202:020:544:89:2889:478:7:163 120.40.130.70
    adalberto.alaniz adalberto.alaniz@bc67.swkt.xyz 172.71.147.114
    loree loree@astroaxis.site 66.63.174.83
    charleywestmoreland22 charleywestmoreland22@0604.ydzc.xyz 172.71.147.139
    ErmaC8171690 lakeishavasey@discardmail.com 46.8.193.63
    202:8109:8286:00:158:45:2111:09 202:8109:8286:00:158:45:2111:09 120.40.130.70
    NewtonDobbs3497 kathrynreed@solstris.com 191.101.92.229
    RexNorris8199 rex-norris3@ad83.delhinightqueen.com 58.136.5.3
    BetteVang492121 bettevang99@talk.muzaco.com 223.29.254.209
    PalmaW00163130 isidra@indexing.store 156.241.211.213
    test2 test2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    successful-subscribe successful-subscribe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    melaine.demole.4306 melaine.demole.4306@cosmetology39.ru 149.126.217.27
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    emails.i emails.i@example.com 120.40.130.70
    kaylee kaylee@example.com 120.40.130.70
    editor1 editor1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    student5 student5@example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    darrell darrell@k.cosmiccluster.store 196.51.92.76
    james.bond james.bond@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nuser nuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    subjectname subjectname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    andrey1c andrey1c@starpostbox.com 57.129.24.56
    edrus972 edrus972@ligmamail.com 156.146.46.137
    john2 john2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user1 user1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    student student@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ArleenPitcher6 nadeen@seoneo.info 38.152.144.152
    your-email your-email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    stud2 stud2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    kaylee kaylee@example.com 120.40.130.70
    marijo marijo@astroarch.online 38.152.146.179
    stud1 stud1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    foobar foobar@example.com 120.40.130.70
    isabelwilliams isabelwilliams@bd.dns-cloud.net 46.8.157.243
    teacher2 teacher2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    contributor contributor@example.com 120.40.130.70
    student7 student7@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lashawndabou5847 lashawndabou5847@t.woeishyang.com 223.206.228.66