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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 - 4 Aug 2026 6:35 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,067
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    BrookeMayers7 brookemayers7679@tiptopmail.top 193.58.104.143
    JulietaFawkner julietafawkner.272@ubalbinki.pl 5.157.52.206
    BradyHorn325 brady-horn.4663@ubalbinki.pl 191.101.110.198
    GraigMazure1484 shantaedusty@solstris.com 144.48.52.235
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    m.a.bakitova m.a.bakitova@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    51 51@waterpalm.online 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    subjectname subjectname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pctony1201 pctony1201@yahoo.com.tw 220.240.17.246
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    toto toto@example.com 120.40.130.70
    paulmiller9622vcss paulmiller9622vcss@b.blog-stuff.com 192.241.84.70
    subjectname subjectname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    maxmustermann maxmustermann@example.com 120.40.130.70
    estoEsUnEjmplo estoEsUnEjmplo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    badbitch badbitch@example.com 120.40.130.70
    techno techno@example.com 120.40.130.70
    merlin merlin@example.com 120.40.130.70
    andym andym@example.com 120.40.130.70
    GTQAlmeda30 almeda-waldo5351@baupo.pl 45.95.118.221
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    linux linux@example.com 120.40.130.70
    swissie swissie@example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    franck franck@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test1 test1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jano jano@example.com 120.40.130.70
    DaifsEmkuc3 DaifsEmkuc3@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testkey testkey@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nanali nanali@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user01 user01@example.com 120.40.130.70
    swopes8802 swopes8802@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dummy14 dummy14@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    info info@seo-prodvizhenie-v-top.ru 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    EroticSpell EroticSpell@example.com 120.40.130.70
    info info@seo-prodvizhenie-v-top.ru 120.40.130.70
    erfan erfan@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Tarah74S923926 wgangtocki9hr92@nestmailbox.com 81.92.195.9
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    trash trash@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jon jon@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    someonesemail someonesemail@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    NinaBlackman237 ninablackman24@act.milkgg.com 102.165.53.200
    caerian caerian@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nadiim nadiim@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ola.nordmann ola.nordmann@example.com 120.40.130.70
    RosalindaMortens wzizola8kr92@nestmailbox.com 217.60.116.77
    dummy5 dummy5@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nip.isak.o.t55 nip.isak.o.t55@gmail.com 146.103.107.50
    note note@example.com 120.40.130.70
    esFeivbyz6 esFeivbyz6@example.com 120.40.130.70
    miau miau@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tyler tyler@example.com 120.40.130.70
    hing hing@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testtriad1909 testtriad1909@example.com 120.40.130.70
    GeraldWhittemore wgarthewinier92@nestmailbox.com 78.157.213.37
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    karenjones476n29i karenjones476n29i@linkbuilding.club 120.40.130.70
    BroderickWord2 broderickword84@stuff.mxdood.com 223.29.254.39
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    newbloghi150 newbloghi150@blogranks.top 2.57.23.9
    AnnetteThomson annetteannette@javike.newgang.info 31.40.195.70
    Hortense5727 hortensetenney14@nor.mxdood.com 196.198.13.67