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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 - 16 Aug 2026 12:24 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,401
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    cliff-champlin22 cliff-champlin22@healthypplevery.org 5.255.117.127
    StellaDeering6 mkalyfguhfgufgmaga@sorok4.fun 196.247.225.167
    LenaMacGillivray wdoornorpreltyflr93@nestmailbox.com 217.60.119.176
    katerina2545 katerina2545@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    2003:8:31:500:478:7:6:525 2003:8:31:500:478:7:6:525 120.40.130.70
    2003:8:31:500:478:7:6:525 2003:8:31:500:478:7:6:525 120.40.130.70
    damarismiltenberger4520 damarismiltenberger4520@freundin.ru 23.19.248.198
    m.ikem.as.t.e.r.s2.02.6 m.ikem.as.t.e.r.s2.02.6@gmail.com 93.114.192.119
    legal legal@vkma.shop 120.40.130.70
    developer developer@vkma.shop 120.40.130.70
    fishing.down.the.drain fishing.down.the.drain@gmail.com 107.77.230.136
    contactus contactus@vkma.shop 120.40.130.70
    b.ra.dt.he.m.as.te.r.7.7.7. b.ra.dt.he.m.as.te.r.7.7.7.@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    201:599:10:33:11:732:3:4611 201:599:10:33:11:732:3:4611 120.40.130.70
    donaldlopez741pgvi donaldlopez741pgvi@gsasearchengineranker.info 120.40.130.70
    Greta2648754658 gretaschweizer13@these.veauly.com 181.215.16.219
    202:472:555:0:24:33:024:462 202:472:555:0:24:33:024:462 120.40.130.70
    donaldlopez741pgvi donaldlopez741pgvi@gsasearchengineranker.info 120.40.130.70
    LaverneQtx lavernemerrifield12@hell.milkgg.com 144.48.52.102
    subjectname subjectname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    2605:4840:2:7:185:126:82:201 2605:4840:2:7:185:126:82:201 120.40.130.70
    202:472:555:0:24:33:024:462 202:472:555:0:24:33:024:462 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    wiltonwilken31 wiltonwilken31@ardelin.orvionix.eu 120.40.130.70
    2001:6:7535:200:33:382:69:2 2001:6:7535:200:33:382:69:2 120.40.130.70
    ErnestinaRagland wligbundel3ir93@nestmailbox.com 81.92.195.51
    200:237:6:801:43::322:65 200:237:6:801:43::322:65 120.40.130.70
    165.22.136.47 165.22.136.47 31.44.59.224
    135.116.82.46 135.116.82.46 37.115.189.95
    morsmnt morsmnt@aol.com 2603:7080:0:850:2459:8:58:11
    morsmnt morsmnt@aol.com 71.127.184.218
    gdglenn201 gdglenn201@aol.com 47.202.75.241
    gdglenn201 gdglenn201@aol.com 47.202.6.109
    gdglenn201 gdglenn201@aol.com 2601:151:302:61:96:257:03:11
    aaronjs27 aaronjs27@gmail.com 2600:1000:183:53:41:71:26:500
    aaronjs27 aaronjs27@gmail.com 71.174.99.234
    aaronjs27 aaronjs27@gmail.com 172.85.239.158
    thierry06 thierry06@live.ca 67.71.103.202
    thierry06 thierry06@live.ca 69.156.43.5
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:208:651::44:51
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 202:267:69:5::5
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:208:627::423:27
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 209:3:826:324::50:41
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 173.59.115.83
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:22:420::82:420
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:255:996::755:996
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:7008:175::55:175
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 209:2:621:1973::289:
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 209:3:626:2769::3:45
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:300:2::3924:12
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:300:67::2:67
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:40:373::9:73
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 2600:4041:7987:800:5:5927:2:3014
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 146.75.249.48
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:7008:53::32:853
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 204:441:7008:67::65:767
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 209:3:621:6:::2
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 2600:4041:7987:800:758:76:80:8
    viggo2161 viggo2161@gmail.com 141.155.144.205
    packermann1252 packermann1252@gmail.com 104.15.216.50
    packermann1252 packermann1252@gmail.com 2600:1700:320:40:0:97:352:
    packermann1252 packermann1252@gmail.com 2600:1700:320:40:234:204:0:983
    packermann1252 packermann1252@gmail.com 2600:1700:320:40:614:362:44:96
    packermann1252 packermann1252@gmail.com 2600:1700:320:40:96:434:6127:8969
    packermann1252 packermann1252@gmail.com 2600:1700:320:40:293:729:4:015
    packermann1252 packermann1252@gmail.com 2600:1700:320:40:0:876:9427:613
    packermann1252 packermann1252@gmail.com 2600:1700:320:40:0:51:9138:83
    packermann1252 packermann1252@gmail.com 2600:1700:320:40:09:95:53:72
    johnlgravel johnlgravel@yahoo.ca 67.70.23.221
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    2607:90:891:89:4:3357:572:596 2607:90:891:89:4:3357:572:596 120.40.130.70