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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 Sep 2026 6:16 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,186
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    jicousderu jicousderu@mail.ru 172.69.135.13
    2601:58:7:5:12:742:6298:89 2601:58:7:5:12:742:6298:89 120.40.130.70
    nafobuqsdOa nafobuqsdOa@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.62
    cwmoaznpxv cwmoaznpxv@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    simon.levesque simon.levesque@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    2001:410:601:1100::596 2001:410:601:1100::596 120.40.130.70
    francois-2.pelletier francois-2.pelletier@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    bobb.ych.a.rs.8.8 bobb.ych.a.rs.8.8@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    notfeelinguanymore notfeelinguanymore@proton.me 120.40.130.70
    jchaset66 jchaset66@proton.me 120.40.130.70
    ohlala69 ohlala69@webtoteam.shop 120.40.130.70
    2600:4041:58:1400:144:29:630:02 2600:4041:58:1400:144:29:630:02 120.40.130.70
    gremlin4spanking6 gremlin4spanking6@proton.me 120.40.130.70
    ohlala69 ohlala69@webtoteam.shop 120.40.130.70
    art6 art6@blogranks.top 104.22.18.54
    donaldbecker91241 donaldbecker91241@c.seoautomationpro.com 138.59.7.136
    barbaraanderson381gghd barbaraanderson381gghd@c.welcometotijuana.com 192.126.143.45
    MaryRose rosejanetsmith472@gmail.com 102.89.68.233
    alexussdz2594 alexussdz@vip.163.com 109.254.32.193
    Jimmyacuse sir.maxbo@yandex.ru 188.162.11.8
    ramil-gilmanov1993 ramil-gilmanov1993@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    lesleydalziel12 lesleydalziel12@7d94.emailma.store 191.101.118.217
    volnnfthfOa volnnfthfOa@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.62
    steveforlong1944 steveforlong1944@koes.justdied.com 172.69.135.14
    mikelgoss mikelgoss@jam.earnlivez.net 104.22.20.143
    xrumer23jouri xrumer23jouri@gmail.com 37.114.50.27
    Agustn chiflines37@gmail.com 90.167.99.86
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    2603:7081:800:169:89:3:9:4 2603:7081:800:169:89:3:9:4 120.40.130.70
    gioele.agostinelli gioele.agostinelli@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    sharikaufman sharikaufman@hidebox.org 104.22.18.53
    DarylHambleton2 robertthomas6334ufay@c.blog-stuff.com 34.73.171.216
    nzmffgog nzmffgog@blackfirsta.com 172.71.150.55
    jkxipzgr jkxipzgr@firsthidden.com 172.71.146.24
    kimberley.kimberley78 kimberley.kimberley78@rapugo.icew.store 172.71.159.82
    UnaZubia71 hildredpoore@8.dnsabr.com 194.163.175.167
    aleksandrrosuna aleksandrrosuna@mail.ru 172.69.224.193
    carmonlovejoy carmonlovejoy@anonmails.deanonmails.de.ini0carmonl 172.69.23.184
    smwantdw smwantdw@fuhrenmail.com 120.40.130.70
    sdaa sdaa@webtoteam.shop 172.71.159.81
    k.u.r.om.i.ka.0.2.6 k.u.r.om.i.ka.0.2.6@gmail.com 162.158.167.43
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    vasyukov.mityusha vasyukov.mityusha@list.ru 120.40.130.70
    martial-faith.tshiji martial-faith.tshiji@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    mitchel-soileau mitchel-soileau@5c45.catche1.com 162.158.167.44
    astridallsop astridallsop@d1d4.emailma.store 104.22.20.142
    margaritamacomber margaritamacomber@8.dnsabr.com 172.69.23.184
    2806:310:172:484:7:3:15:55 2806:310:172:484:7:3:15:55 120.40.130.70
    2001:410:601:1100::5237 2001:410:601:1100::5237 120.40.130.70
    2001:100:5884:400:1599:9:95:624 2001:100:5884:400:1599:9:95:624 120.40.130.70
    nuser nuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ambassador ambassador@comfrt.com 120.40.130.70
    info info@rewardopedia.com 2600:1700:5613:1800:3913:46:1154:91
    robertjohnson6546u7bm robertjohnson6546u7bm@c.indexpulse.app 196.51.172.15
    vetawilloughby6136 vetawilloughby6136@mailmenot.io 104.22.18.53
    bonnie-drummond bonnie-drummond@jam.earnlivez.net 172.69.23.183
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    angeliabarrera5799 angeliabarrera5799@anonmails.de 196.16.5.106
    Nanakay grinoperry64@gmail.com 197.255.99.242
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    remontbytex remontbytex@yandex.ru 5.138.74.125
    micaelamicaela micaelamicaela@gepoda.smartlink.lat 162.252.53.172
    2001:410:305:2100::479 2001:410:305:2100::479 120.40.130.70
    2001:410:601:1100::5237 2001:410:601:1100::5237 120.40.130.70
    mkwzqsow mkwzqsow@ishowfirstmail.com 104.22.18.54
    2601:245:4701:3150:7060:266:842:9 2601:245:4701:3150:7060:266:842:9 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    anrtmsms anrtmsms@analismail.com 172.69.135.13