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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 - 20 Apr 2026 12:48 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,632
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    iro iro@umm.ac.id 120.40.130.70
    penniskerst22 penniskerst22@tusu.blyxen.org 172.71.159.82
    SuzanneKane1080 suzannekane47@mode.ehomu.com 45.125.245.18
    prodi prodi@umm.ac.id 120.40.130.70
    ChaseTeeple3333 chaseteeple42@cool.muzaco.com 144.48.52.169
    202:1810:808:600:47:962:904:058 202:1810:808:600:47:962:904:058 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:808:600:47:962:904:058 202:1810:808:600:47:962:904:058 120.40.130.70
    mohammadrosas mohammadrosas@702a.rshrthertherth.net 172.69.134.82
    csirt csirt@umm.ac.id 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johnmiller98546mph johnmiller98546mph@gsasearchengineranker.guru 120.40.130.70
    o.xi.mu.s.7.77.s.vng.sh.lp7b o.xi.mu.s.7.77.s.vng.sh.lp7b@gmail.com 104.22.20.143
    202:1810:808:600:47:962:904:058 202:1810:808:600:47:962:904:058 120.40.130.70
    202:03:300:1600:5159:69:18:6597 202:03:300:1600:5159:69:18:6597 120.40.130.70
    johnmiller98546mph johnmiller98546mph@gsasearchengineranker.guru 120.40.130.70
    rosalieriggs90 rosalieriggs90@fog.blyxen.org 104.22.20.143
    2hereftttyj 2hereftttyj@anonmails.de 120.40.130.70
    2003:0:30:00:614::42:79 2003:0:30:00:614::42:79 120.40.130.70
    anthonywilson1542p4sp anthonywilson1542p4sp@travel-e-store.com 23.236.139.224
    2806:20:881:4:785:821:223:33 2806:20:881:4:785:821:223:33 120.40.130.70
    LarhondaKeel13 larhondakeel87@cold.muzaco.com 191.101.92.164
    sue-dobos.8520 sue-dobos.8520@openlandguide.xyz 120.40.130.70
    RubyeCurran lindalopez30754wex@c.verifiedlinklist.com 191.96.249.235
    r260402 r260402@1wyws.top 185.214.96.98
    TedCtf3739624115 egtt0tvw2z8@5818888.com 50.118.178.250
    eamos eamos@cogeco.ca 120.40.130.70
    2001:861:3280:10:81:168:72:42 2001:861:3280:10:81:168:72:42 120.40.130.70
    wiedemannklaus wiedemannklaus@t-online.de 104.22.17.127
    arthur96 arthur96@t-online.de 172.71.154.179
    valerapaboza valerapaboza@mail.ru 104.22.17.126
    lynwoodgallo8915 lynwoodgallo8915@anonmails.de 172.71.158.167
    comptepourtheopen2026bis comptepourtheopen2026bis@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    anthonyanderson32453yjg anthonyanderson32453yjg@c.blog-stuff.com 67.215.225.192
    HomerMouton3658 homermouton-5192@crypto-boss21.site 72.56.153.188
    juanperez juanperez@rus-china.travel 181.177.86.228
    EdisonHeighway3 edisonheighway35@lower.ehomu.com 103.221.232.201
    EwanRatley ewanratley46@mode.ehomu.com 191.101.92.218
    digitaldebauchery digitaldebauchery69@proton.me 208.180.214.120
    jinanivison jinanivison@emailgsa14.xyz 104.22.20.143
    Jacelyn49R leonreva@solstris.com 45.125.245.208
    gerald gerald@uraplive.com 172.71.154.179
    2001:07::750:8460:55:7:615 2001:07::750:8460:55:7:615 120.40.130.70
    valerapaboza valerapaboza@mail.ru 83.217.213.120
    ConcettaSearle concettasearle39@role.cdfaq.com 191.101.92.175
    KeeleyGrabowski keeleygrabowski67@cool.muzaco.com 196.198.13.165
    AndrewPinkley3 andrewpinkley79@feed.cdfaq.com 181.215.16.219
    paulgarcia1223sfk0 paulgarcia1223sfk0@seoautomationpro.online 172.69.134.82
    204:441:200:80::123:80 204:441:200:80::123:80 120.40.130.70
    hxfgqhcgo0a7dak hxfgqhcgo0a7dak@proton.me 120.40.130.70
    BillyAnaya6659 billyanaya66@talk.muzaco.com 191.101.114.223
    202:1810:9562:00:3:5568:077:60 202:1810:9562:00:3:5568:077:60 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Ruben ruben@globaltek.es 85.52.230.221
    eden.lett31 eden.lett31@emailgsa8.xyz 104.22.17.126
    anatolijgavrilovtx0892 anatolijgavrilovtx0892@rambler.ru 161.115.230.160
    FredEnyeart 9ni0otsnj8t@5818888.com 50.118.178.250
    grant.thornton.externo grant.thornton.externo@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    topone113 topone113@blogwebsite.top 162.158.167.133
    ValVentura4 1ng0xk4vb62@5818888.com 50.118.178.250
    lindsaygrasser lindsaygrasser@anonmails.de 172.69.22.194
    grant.thornton.external grant.thornton.external@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    2001:10:886:200:29:59:41:336 2001:10:886:200:29:59:41:336 120.40.130.70
    quentinquentin56 quentinquentin56@dodaba.wish.rest 120.40.130.70
    yselxwyoppt yselxwyoppt@ventura17.ru 120.40.130.70
    fwvxopzwrpi fwvxopzwrpi@ventura17.ru 120.40.130.70
    santos-santos santos-santos@paliro.nmail.work 172.69.134.85
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    BrendanG60 brendankeene27@seat.muzaco.com 154.16.69.184
    202:1810:8583:600:983:66:59:86 202:1810:8583:600:983:66:59:86 120.40.130.70
    lorrineride6207 lorrineride6207@basebuykey.com 45.3.39.201
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70