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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 - 7 Aug 2026 1:08 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,304
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    FredrickOHara3 fredrickohara47@dear.mxdood.com 102.165.55.238
    roseannharless99 roseannharless99@nervain.nexanta.eu 120.40.130.70
    VerlaKinder verlakinder70@deny.milkgg.com 223.29.254.45
    Ted1140752360261 tedlysaght52@slide.veauly.com 102.165.54.52
    mark.bernhofen mark.bernhofen@smithschool.ox.ac.uk 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    compliance compliance@fixedfloat.com 195.63.29.20
    donaldwitler dwitler@neb.rr.com 2603:8083:273:854:927:525:82:188
    ElisaDavey05374 dkkbssfh@blackfirsta.com 64.31.3.126
    subjectname subjectname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    comercial comercial@toppen.com.br 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:13:100:07:412:229:703 202:1810:13:100:07:412:229:703 120.40.130.70
    new new@example.com 120.40.130.70
    autofetch1765346543 autofetch1765346543@example.com 120.40.130.70
    leafjava leafjava@example.com 120.40.130.70
    revan revan@example.com 120.40.130.70
    UsuSad1 UsuSad1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ccai-java-sdk ccai-java-sdk@example.com 120.40.130.70
    userc userc@example.com 120.40.130.70
    UsuSad2 UsuSad2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    whitefox whitefox@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ariary ariary@example.com 120.40.130.70
    cidead2 cidead2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    myname myname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pkuczynski pkuczynski@example.com 120.40.130.70
    classmate2 classmate2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    revleaf revleaf@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testuser12345 testuser12345@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ed ed@example.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1808:4:16:8474:60:678:29 202:1808:4:16:8474:60:678:29 120.40.130.70
    CrystleZiesemer crystleziesemer17@fast.veauly.com 102.165.55.40
    202:267:04:414:0:9000:0:7 202:267:04:414:0:9000:0:7 120.40.130.70
    YOWConnor384 connormcevoy61@brick.pettin.com 154.16.69.173
    MuhammadCarnahan muhammadcarnahan8@wild.ehomu.com 102.165.53.235
    KerriBledsoe3 kerribledsoe94@slow.pettin.com 191.101.92.183
    SeanButts71669 seanbutts23@nor.mxdood.com 177.234.143.137
    BrooksLouis892 brookslouis14@self.ehomu.com 191.101.114.223
    HarrisonThomsen harrisonthomsen14@hell.milkgg.com 196.198.13.165
    2603:800:210:1680:3549:748:2:46 2603:800:210:1680:3549:748:2:46 120.40.130.70
    nannetteskipper6585 nannetteskipper6585@b.cr.cloudns.asia 5.157.17.48
    nzelite nzelite@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    fleury fleury@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    zeila zeila@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    LucretiaConger3 lucretiaconger84@stuff.mxdood.com 102.165.54.7
    cwpddegw cwpddegw@ishowfirstmail.com 176.108.221.179
    carlossilva carlossilva@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    rosangela.paz rosangela.paz@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    blancamcmillan66 blancamcmillan66@nervain.nexanta.eu 45.153.238.226
    julio.korehisa julio.korehisa@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    edwigesoliveira edwigesoliveira@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
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    cacjaru cacjaru@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    sa sa@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    BDNStan8724 stanwhitley39@toy.pettin.com 102.165.54.226
    GlendaDambrosio glenda-dambrosio.363@beastmail.biz 193.58.104.26
    loja223 loja223@rihappy.com.br 120.40.130.70
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    angelica angelica@rihappy.com.br 120.40.130.70
    202:476:835:0:55:8:566: 202:476:835:0:55:8:566: 120.40.130.70
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    manuel.nunes manuel.nunes@rihappy.com.br 120.40.130.70
    eliana.tariji eliana.tariji@rihappy.com.br 120.40.130.70
    natendimento natendimento@rihappy.com.br 120.40.130.70