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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 - 8 Sep 2026 10:00 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,574
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    hanx hanx@boostor.com.cn 120.40.130.70
    mppsk0 mppsk0@163.com 120.40.130.70
    virginiamowle1118 virginiamowle1118@bjork.wtf 104.22.17.79
    elizabethtaylor991798a3 elizabethtaylor991798a3@b.pattaya-mega.com 196.51.11.80
    fsae fsae@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    pashasociha pashasociha@mail.ru 162.158.167.144
    richard.labrie richard.labrie@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    yvette-summerfield-gardenghi34 yvette-summerfield-gardenghi34@healthypplevery.org 158.62.210.137
    francois-2.pelletier francois-2.pelletier@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    si-reseau si-reseau@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    Blikinkfak sosoevamadina@gmail.com 158.173.166.249
    ArielleBarlow90 lorettashepard2916@anonmails.de 185.220.101.99
    mftshiji-arin mftshiji-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    chooom chooom@webtoteam.shop 172.71.155.103
    lvalero-arin lvalero-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    jonathan.dupont jonathan.dupont@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    AntonioMcneil7 vincentvasqu@injkrea.xyz 38.154.25.178
    RYANEPA ryan@securemyloans.com.au 193.114.99.94
    janelle isabel.aguinas@deped.gov.ph 150.228.225.76
    hanx hanx@boostor.com.cn 120.40.130.70
    xrume070926 xrume070926@pereskazfilma.site 37.214.247.242
    sdkpikep sdkpikep@bekommenmail.com 120.40.130.70
    Wyatt atv097@gmail.com 2600:655:700:13:6:612:69:787
    josephjackson41822jiw josephjackson41822jiw@b.gsasearchengineranker.com 120.40.130.70
    MarylinTice419 josephtaylor75467dfe@b.travel-e-store.com 23.94.230.98
    Lac thaovi269@gmail.com 113.160.214.38
    melvina.ingle8792 melvina.ingle8792@tellix.xyz 66.146.235.214
    be645d6aa66562235e7eaa0841b4ee58 1526421160@qq.com 2409:8924:180:12:183:840:86:810
    vickey-vickey vickey-vickey@xowifi.fckmail.online 172.69.23.184
    kosarevaalena1981113 kosarevaalena1981113@list.ru 120.40.130.70
    francescog francesco-garnett1@2f2c.bulbulda.xyz 192.227.150.199
    JamiStockwell jamijami51@vodowi.kosmos.mom 140.235.169.213
    torstenatencio3578 torstenatencio3578@anonmails.de 138.36.95.133
    johnthomas56843er3 johnthomas56843er3@a.travel-e-store.com 104.22.20.57
    monty.swayne monty.swayne@entityauthority.xyz 181.215.16.100
    ma.tt.h.em.ast.ers.s.unny ma.tt.h.em.ast.ers.s.unny@gmail.com 92.119.36.22
    herve.gros herve.gros@pm.me 120.40.130.70
    w.o.o.d.for.dj.a.mes.o.n4. w.o.o.d.for.dj.a.mes.o.n4.@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    Blikinkfak dianaazipenko94043@gmail.com 158.173.166.249
    szamaniskoo3 szamaniskoo3@wp.pl 120.40.130.70
    Elite2654 Elite2654@proton.me 120.40.130.70
    xiolto xiolto@tutamail.com 120.40.130.70
    ateliernicolasjanquart ateliernicolasjanquart@hotmail.com 120.40.130.70
    niyef74267 niyef74267@94an.com 120.40.130.70
    fabve3 fabve3@youppie.net 120.40.130.70
    nithatroto nithatroto@list.ru 120.40.130.70
    vesko5252 vesko5252@abv.bg 120.40.130.70
    kristahillen kristahillen@shrinkr.top 92.112.14.30
    leizetna leizetna@proton.me 120.40.130.70
    robert-keating robert-keating@shrinkr.top 103.104.20.138
    toto.54 toto.54@mailoo.org 120.40.130.70
    mail.ry59 mail.ry59@mailo.com 120.40.130.70
    ParisDream75 ParisDream75@proton.me 120.40.130.70
    b.a.lla.rk.ei.si b.a.lla.rk.ei.si@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    foyeci9129 foyeci9129@exweme.com 120.40.130.70
    oylrlzrwvmn oylrlzrwvmn@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
    2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 120.40.130.70
    2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 120.40.130.70
    conradginnocchi-sauceda conradginnocchi-sauceda@healthypplevery.org 69.58.72.187
    m.artaspello.w.da. m.artaspello.w.da.@gmail.com 176.36.146.80
    2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 120.40.130.70
    harrysmith30250ahul harrysmith30250ahul@b.seoautomationpro.com 120.40.130.70
    uvvrvlsqzmn uvvrvlsqzmn@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
    laneifsempa laneifsempa@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.41
    rerkgeemong98 rerkgeemong98@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    Blikinkfak elizaveta.sukhova29@gmail.com 158.173.166.249
    2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 120.40.130.70
    mableding6792 mableding6792@mnvr.site 172.71.158.116
    sbldfzladpa sbldfzladpa@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.41
    2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 120.40.130.70
    elizabethc ummhd3p@gmx.com 141.164.90.93
    JohnetteMonteneg johnettemontenegro@mailtech.ro 192.126.224.45
    2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 120.40.130.70
    aureliaplain aureliaplain@anonmails.de 172.69.23.184
    2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 2600:1001:154:44:892:434:3813:73 120.40.130.70
    si-reseau si-reseau@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    vzpkigwswki vzpkigwswki@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.182
    llzmatyszPt llzmatyszPt@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.49
    richard.labrie richard.labrie@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70