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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 Nov 2025 5:01 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,336
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    RemonaWitte8918 remonawitte@gizbo-777-jackpot.top 149.126.218.153
    justineedkins justineedkins@anonmails.de 162.158.166.211
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 146.75.245.83
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 146.75.223.76
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 204:441:40:50::5:50
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 204:441:300:20::361:0
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 204:441:40:5026::120:026
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 209:2:641:23::182:
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 204:441:300:28::471:28
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 204:441:40:557::69:57
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 209:2:641:197::28:3
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 71.249.97.182
    181.89.106.9 181.89.106.9 154.57.3.36
    estatman56 estatman56@gmail.com 204:441:300:24::943:34
    seabash seabash@hotmail.com 184.163.111.213
    seabash seabash@hotmail.com 66.131.151.2
    sezerkocaman sezerkocaman@gmail.com 85.102.180.143
    pat.kinequon pat.kinequon@gmail.com 2605:59:1137:310:29:31:201:8
    pat.kinequon pat.kinequon@gmail.com 2605:59:1137:310:798:233:7835:238
    pat.kinequon pat.kinequon@gmail.com 2605:59:1137:310:9:12:16:370
    pat.kinequon pat.kinequon@gmail.com 2605:59:1137:310:17:3102:430:9
    pat.kinequon pat.kinequon@gmail.com 216.197.150.185
    warnie71159 warnie71159@yahoo.com 2600:4040:2967:500:57:8:11:8537
    warnie71159 warnie71159@yahoo.com 2600:4040:2967:500:715:53:763:90
    warnie71159 warnie71159@yahoo.com 50.202.143.130
    pleblanc002 pleblanc002@sympatico.ca 104.254.90.243
    pleblanc002 pleblanc002@sympatico.ca 139.28.218.235
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 204:441:336:557::536:557
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 204:441:32:906::52:906
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 204:441:346:936::46:936
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 204:441:3382:490::382:490
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 202:267:64:4000:800::14
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 209:3:725:400::66:2
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 209:3:76:2828::400:6
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 204:441:331:562::831:562
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 209:3:602:10::1:20
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 209:3:7242:1955::286:2
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 204:441:3303:06::603:06
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 204:441:336:7::466:7
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 209:3:72:2832::401:29
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 202:267:220:4000:6000::1
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 2603:6080:890:24:145:44:85:69
    jamesdavis002 jamesdavis002@gmail.com 108.31.217.234
    erickhalloween erickhalloween@gmail.com 209.216.116.130
    erickhalloween erickhalloween@gmail.com 2605:880:60:991:883:1:402:496
    erickhalloween erickhalloween@gmail.com 209.171.85.89
    erickhalloween erickhalloween@gmail.com 85.131.160.55
    erickhalloween erickhalloween@gmail.com 99.253.244.55
    dsbguy dsbguy@yahoo.com 150.195.166.226
    dsbguy dsbguy@yahoo.com 174.85.16.253
    daveblack daveblack@outlook.com 209.202.208.8
    SidneyTRUSE bladeheart0@yahoo.com 94.25.168.195
    corrineborden95 corrineborden95@51tiemo.com 172.69.134.211
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    GarfieldLock41 elliot-111@freespainmail.com 178.159.37.16
    stephanie.macmillan89 stephanie.macmillan89@phinvitation.com 196.51.113.32
    cyndi cyndi@e.skywardhub.online 172.71.154.66
    mariacoutinhoconsigcred.25 mariacoutinhoconsigcred.25@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    Petermig vickiem@davisagencyinc.com 31.173.86.243
    ShannonMerz3 wheimildirf0r68@nestmailbox.com 107.175.2.99
    charlessmith2081j5us charlessmith2081j5us@gsasearchengineranker.com 172.69.134.210
    JosetteCrain wrammeldenh5r68@nestmailbox.com 196.51.111.157
    charlesthomas4583nni charlesthomas4583nni@travel-e-store.com 23.83.179.179
    vujikolsef vujikolsef@anonmails.de 91.188.244.33
    sensphish sensphish@gmail.net 120.40.130.70
    inshelp inshelp@hotmail.com 104.255.13.201
    bzzwy0173 bzzwy0173@gmx.com 127.0.0.1
    JasminMcAlroy randallaimee@andindoc.com 198.154.80.21
    cara-secrest76 cara-secrest76@jhywigs.browndecorationlights.com 23.81.230.149
    Hortense38T hortensetarr90@role.cdfaq.com 154.16.69.108
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jim.amerson7355 jim.amerson7355@k99m.com 104.237.242.110
    KennyNub juanfdavalos17@gmail.com 178.176.77.28
    blanchequan blanchequan@b.cr.cloudns.asia 162.158.166.210
    KristieWord11 kristie-kristie@tuzone.kizmet.space 130.49.113.134
    Steventobre michellemarcello@yahoo.com 31.173.82.41
    thehosting thehosting@bubuk.site 37.139.53.226
    MalcomZet michellemarcello@yahoo.com 178.176.77.28
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70