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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 - 13 Mar 2026 1:19 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,002,681
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    202:8434:0:2001:796:493:97:78 202:8434:0:2001:796:493:97:78 120.40.130.70
    paigefarthing paigefarthing@beachhotelzoutelande.click 104.22.20.235
    amelia.mcvay84 amelia.mcvay84@support.51tiemo.com 104.22.20.234
    2803:600:5124:377:953:427:028:88 2803:600:5124:377:953:427:028:88 120.40.130.70
    201:08:461:700:11:642:8:344 201:08:461:700:11:642:8:344 120.40.130.70
    2802:8012:959:00:415:448:11:8629 2802:8012:959:00:415:448:11:8629 120.40.130.70
    leonleverette leonleverette@mailmenot.io 104.22.20.235
    201:04:484:600:86:949:681:175 201:04:484:600:86:949:681:175 120.40.130.70
    2806:108:1:75:174:397:83:9803 2806:108:1:75:174:397:83:9803 120.40.130.70
    2803:9800:987:8825:140:20:438:58 2803:9800:987:8825:140:20:438:58 120.40.130.70
    20:640:1710:98:50:1294:3281:782 20:640:1710:98:50:1294:3281:782 120.40.130.70
    comercial comercial@toppen.com.br 120.40.130.70
    205:452:401:600::2369:18:258 205:452:401:600::2369:18:258 120.40.130.70
    deneseaffleck deneseaffleck@cosoinan.com 172.69.23.193
    chrisalvarez2 chrisalvarez2@wash.pettin.com 196.51.113.246
    201:05:858:8900:344:1282:95:859 201:05:858:8900:344:1282:95:859 120.40.130.70
    nzelite nzelite@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    zelite zelite@tjro.jus.br 120.40.130.70
    2600:1700:4250:3590:103:7:501:36 2600:1700:4250:3590:103:7:501:36 120.40.130.70
    2001:162:093:3:780:877:5763:6 2001:162:093:3:780:877:5763:6 120.40.130.70
    2001:1::417:780::76:24 2001:1::417:780::76:24 120.40.130.70
    2001:140:1408:9900:701:77:461:569 2001:140:1408:9900:701:77:461:569 120.40.130.70
    werso081500iu werso081500iu@rambler.ru 94.156.14.105
    202:420:216:5009:5:4148:45:34 202:420:216:5009:5:4148:45:34 120.40.130.70
    sherryldowning17 sherryldowning17@adult-work.info 209.50.190.180
    HaydenQuintero haydenquintero38@self.ehomu.com 45.125.245.208
    RYJames adhhzxspjw@rambler.ru 77.222.104.198
    2001:162:5:400:83:211:6701:829 2001:162:5:400:83:211:6701:829 120.40.130.70
    2001:68:541:43:23:653:64:212 2001:68:541:43:23:653:64:212 120.40.130.70
    2607:90:3528:97:11:53:8:519 2607:90:3528:97:11:53:8:519 120.40.130.70
    2803:600:202:754:19:998:4:4393 2803:600:202:754:19:998:4:4393 120.40.130.70
    2001:78:09:401:00:141:187:13 2001:78:09:401:00:141:187:13 120.40.130.70
    201:05:9229:5000:93:225:370:64 201:05:9229:5000:93:225:370:64 120.40.130.70
    FranklynPmk ba.ilb.ond.s.3.50@gmail.com 65.21.16.207
    2600:1002:12:1:0:9:6302:5301 2600:1002:12:1:0:9:6302:5301 120.40.130.70
    202:7:322:7400:8:541:873:19 202:7:322:7400:8:541:873:19 120.40.130.70
    ouvidoriacadastropositivo ouvidoriacadastropositivo@spcbrasil.org.br 120.40.130.70
    202:7:566:500:043:994:672:513 202:7:566:500:043:994:672:513 120.40.130.70
    casimira.camerlengo-ackman casimira.camerlengo-ackman@healthypplevery.org 66.146.239.227
    2403:6200:880:408:45:1:238:39 2403:6200:880:408:45:1:238:39 120.40.130.70
    2601:4:082:410:19:793:0:39 2601:4:082:410:19:793:0:39 120.40.130.70
    2601:12:4486:530:291:42:530:3342 2601:12:4486:530:291:42:530:3342 120.40.130.70
    FelicitasMatlock felicitasmatlock70@quickreply.beachflag.click 196.244.48.245
    202:03:870:501:659:81:7:6488 202:03:870:501:659:81:7:6488 120.40.130.70
    2601:647:000:520:135:78:3114:9 2601:647:000:520:135:78:3114:9 120.40.130.70
    200:1762:8102:99:0:5433:899:64 200:1762:8102:99:0:5433:899:64 120.40.130.70
    210:582:8:0:614:72:212:9 210:582:8:0:614:72:212:9 120.40.130.70
    2600:1002:12:1:0:9:6302:5301 2600:1002:12:1:0:9:6302:5301 120.40.130.70
    ruwbxjla ruwbxjla@streetwormail.com 120.40.130.70
    mknxknnz mknxknnz@eblanomail.com 120.40.130.70
    z.a.m.o.k.p.etro.vs.ky.202.3 z.a.m.o.k.p.etro.vs.ky.202.3@gmail.com 194.36.108.94
    al-boomer al-boomer@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    polinaak polinaak@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    1240674314 1240674314@qq.com 115.171.170.2
    TaylahMcQu danielgonzalez5719mnz3@travel-e-store.com 103.87.142.25
    DuaneDeMaistre duaneduane@sitane.carmail.bond 209.50.168.32
    burtonclunie65 burtonclunie65@51tiemo.com 195.63.17.162
    SommerSon716 sommerson22@seat.muzaco.com 223.29.254.56
    stevenmartinez6906htpw stevenmartinez6906htpw@travel-e-store.com 142.214.180.8
    kayleighmcmillen kayleighmcmillen@hotelhafenhamburg.click 172.69.134.82
    nvagtfpv nvagtfpv@bekommenmail.com 64.31.3.126
    AshtonAlmeida3 shantaedusty@solstris.com 103.221.232.11
    percydame percydame@abyis.com 72.195.34.60
    vestergaardxqqalbrektsen vestergaardxqqalbrektsen@yahoo.com 82.21.238.85
    jonathanaaronhernandezbarrera jonathanaaronhernandezbarrera@gmail.com 177.236.130.13
    linniesummers2783 linniesummers2783@now.mefound.com 216.26.226.127
    dasha-kosolapova dasha-kosolapova@yandex.ru 120.40.130.70
    2607:90:998:746:748:685:5714:17 2607:90:998:746:748:685:5714:17 120.40.130.70
    ShelleyGreeves shelleygreeves52@last.muzaco.com 196.196.254.163