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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 - 2 Dec 2025 5:03 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,438
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    chpzsopv chpzsopv@streetwormail.com 85.203.36.67
    inst.pesqueiro.atlantico inst.pesqueiro.atlantico@edu.xunta.gal 120.40.130.70
    GeniaSwafford2 oliviaboone@mailmenot.io 173.234.248.8
    2001:4860:7:1606::9 20014860716069 31.44.59.224
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:2:17:12::312:7
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 202:267:8:612:0:000:0:9
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 202:267:81:612:0:800:0:1
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 202:267:8:612:0:3000:0:2
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:3:179:12::312:37
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:3:17:12::312:2
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:3:17:12::2:73
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:3:17:18::311:
    194.180.49.171 194.180.49.171 31.44.59.224
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:3:17:12::312:9
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 202:267:84:612:0:000:0:8
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 202:267:84:612:0:000:0:5
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:2:17:12::312:1
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:2:179:18::311:1
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:2:17:18::311:78
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:2:179:123::1:8
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:2:17:18::311:9
    cpr.cebem cpr.cebem@edu.xunta.gal 154.57.3.36
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:3:179:18::311:9
    179.42.70.34 179.42.70.34 176.8.89.36
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 209:2:1:1678::23:51
    duncjewell duncjewell@gmail.com 165.225.36.109
    RDTLorrie145447 lorrieboyette78@gato.ophixy.com 66.93.209.228
    StantonNewell16 shannavang5547@mailmenot.io 196.51.31.59
    2001:8004:1302:790:5424::36:5142 2001:8004:1302:790:5424::36:5142 120.40.130.70
    sdbnkgix sdbnkgix@eblanomail.com 85.203.36.67
    gmzgoyxh gmzgoyxh@tubermail.com 82.118.29.20
    ogzptzsi ogzptzsi@eblanomail.com 45.86.200.75
    sdbnkgix sdbnkgix@eblanomail.com 85.203.36.71
    genamarcus33 genamarcus33@tupu.blyxen.org 207.244.118.13
    dolnovam dolnovam@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    dolnovam dolnovam@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    HellenMullens55 efvrbtgnhym@razdel-imushchestva6.ru 166.1.203.194
    kxdviezl kxdviezl@streetwormail.com 45.86.200.54
    nohe nohe@sabalanmusic.ir 162.158.166.211
    ogzptzsi ogzptzsi@eblanomail.com 45.86.200.80
    RusselChaplin3 christophersmith3141g3f6@verifiedlinklist.com 66.212.19.6
    jeremyvesely jeremyvesely@anonmails.de 172.71.158.67
    charlesjohnson5512w7m charlesjohnson5512w7m@budgetthailandtravel.com 104.22.17.127
    Carolzed g.tcelikovskaya14839987@rambler.ru 135.181.125.113
    melodeeburkitt melodeeburkitt@anonmails.de 172.71.154.67
    HalleyCisneros5 halley.cisneros-1502@genshinfans.cc 165.231.97.116
    gtzzppbc gtzzppbc@streetwormail.com 172.69.135.59
    Roland48A265180 stevendavis6630qtwx@gsasearchengineranker.com 66.212.24.221
    dolnovam dolnovam@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    CedricPinkham57 cedric-pinkham@genshinfans.cc 172.245.193.115
    ScarlettClint10 marianaaguirre6823@mailmenot.io 196.51.65.154
    ogzptzsi ogzptzsi@eblanomail.com 45.86.200.96
    Zachary81P ka34f3411k@razdel-imushchestva6.ru 154.196.16.199
    NUYSherri5914 thomastaylor262917zd@gsasearchengineranker.com 66.212.24.100
    rhaujsqz rhaujsqz@ronaldofmail.com 172.69.23.148
    TobiasTimmer237 nataliedavisson66@mailmenot.io 192.126.182.145
    dorieratliff21 dorieratliff21@rest.veauly.com 45.88.106.9
    kxdviezl kxdviezl@streetwormail.com 45.86.200.98
    LuellaMoye2451 mmph50@blogwebsite.top 194.53.140.13
    kxdviezl kxdviezl@streetwormail.com 45.86.200.105
    sdbnkgix sdbnkgix@eblanomail.com 85.203.36.58
    BelleByk14364 elizabethjones9840zgrc@travel-e-store.com 66.63.186.80
    sdbnkgix sdbnkgix@eblanomail.com 85.203.36.46
    RileyJacobson schl.u.ter.o.br.a.zts.ovx.r.19.8.17@gmail.com 45.42.88.109
    DomingaGlenny guyellis@mailmenot.io 196.51.49.19
    lancascarret lancascarret@animewiki.cc 172.69.135.59
    olliehernsheim olliehernsheim@healthdietshop.com 162.158.166.211