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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 - 30 Jul 2026 10:39 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,546
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    lashay-boatwright lashay-boatwright@satisfaction.opentravellersrest. 104.22.17.78
    marktaylor1695vgws marktaylor1695vgws@f.welcometotijuana.com 104.22.17.79
    RickieSpann72 janbeatriz@solstris.com 102.165.55.131
    2600:118:264:701:638:56:62:910 2600:118:264:701:638:56:62:910 120.40.130.70
    BrandenThrower2 brandenthrower56@fiber.pettin.com 102.165.53.34
    anthonyrodriguez32743l anthonyrodriguez32743l@linkbuilding.club 120.40.130.70
    Tina74X358 flossieullathorne553@adult-work.info 106.215.147.141
    robbiedk1 robbiedk1@noc4210.ko39.lavabitmail.digital 185.220.101.11
    UlyssesAit thomasgarcia9005yh14@gsasearchengineranker.shop 217.60.121.178
    maira.collingridgedetourcey maira.collingridgedetourcey@saudiroofing.top 172.69.135.14
    theresematthaei89 theresematthaei89@only.veauly.com 172.69.23.184
    202:1810:57:400:53:953:94:998 202:1810:57:400:53:953:94:998 120.40.130.70
    AntonMcCrae2 flossieullathorne553@adult-work.info 106.215.147.141
    GCrvNAfUmNnGnKYTEWESbhfkSLGZeEuLaXktgnh ly.n.nt.u.rr.a@gmail.com 185.220.100.241
    Somebody josephjohns2025@gmail.com 99.88.73.199
    SherylSotelo2 sherylsotelo28@keep.cdfaq.com 154.16.69.250
    Someone josephjohns2025@gmail.com 99.88.73.199
    humm.er.toly.m.pia humm.er.toly.m.pia@gmail.com 138.219.122.194
    NovellaBritt822 novellabritt19@deny.milkgg.com 191.101.92.218
    2001:100:400:5500:98:6:228:38 2001:100:400:5500:98:6:228:38 120.40.130.70
    NoeSamuels8632 randygraves@injkrea.xyz 38.154.186.117
    EnriquetaR07 deanbarton@injkrea.xyz 38.154.25.65
    MorrisCaswell20 morriscaswell53@.mxdood.com 196.198.13.252
    2001:100:400:5500:98:6:228:38 2001:100:400:5500:98:6:228:38 120.40.130.70
    LincolnMoniz carlsimmons@injkrea.xyz 196.51.119.41
    TessaLumpkins0 dominiquealexandra@solstris.com 223.29.254.133
    aoifezhang19687 aoifezhang19687@b.seoautomationpro.com 38.154.25.200
    mariabonet mariabonet@bd.dns-cloud.net 172.71.154.179
    y.ah.ubano.g.u.h1.5 y.ah.ubano.g.u.h1.5@gmail.com 104.22.17.78
    StepanieGerber stepaniegerber57@fast.veauly.com 191.101.92.175
    seansalinas91 seansalinas91@ardelin.orvionix.eu 120.40.130.70
    20:5687:73:16:0:82:4:24 20:5687:73:16:0:82:4:24 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:809:100:43:19:4:977 202:1810:809:100:43:19:4:977 120.40.130.70
    20:003:748:66:6:7:1:158 20:003:748:66:6:7:1:158 120.40.130.70
    vasyukov.mityusha vasyukov.mityusha@list.ru 172.69.23.183
    ugihitej ugihitej@papkettwwqs.com 158.69.119.14
    202:420:243:809:4158:7:637:3415 202:420:243:809:4158:7:637:3415 120.40.130.70
    earlamaya1930 earlamaya1930@analismail.com 162.158.167.44
    ryanlopez28222 ryanlopez28222@b.seoautomationpro.com 104.22.20.142
    Zella38B1793 zellamedworth22@fast.veauly.com 102.165.53.166
    Brianloasp arklay@lichnyj-kabinet.ru 146.103.113.214
    nt nt@example.com 120.40.130.70
    windowsNAS windowsNAS@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dummy dummy@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nfrig nfrig@example.com 120.40.130.70
    KathaleenBroger kathaleenbroger-1270@grumm.pl 200.10.47.80
    mayan-edms-admin mayan-edms-admin@example.com 120.40.130.70
    windows10 windows10@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    kennywong kennywong@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tagbaam tagbaam@example.com 120.40.130.70
    not-avaliavble not-avaliavble@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    f.vojtokic f.vojtokic@example.com 120.40.130.70
    eample eample@example.com 120.40.130.70
    central central@example.com 120.40.130.70
    oyster oyster@example.com 120.40.130.70
    privacyprotection02 privacyprotection02@example.com 120.40.130.70
    unrelated unrelated@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nickname nickname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Sampleuser1 Sampleuser1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    michou11320 michou11320@proton.me 120.40.130.70
    boku boku@example.com 120.40.130.70
    fominykh fominykh@example.com 120.40.130.70
    n.ehv n.ehv@example.com 120.40.130.70
    DerApfel DerApfel@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70