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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 - 6 Nov 2026 1:42 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,780
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    james james@22ovz.com 120.40.130.70
    krasnhello krasnhello@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    jennifer.smith jennifer.smith@qwestisp.net 120.40.130.70
    gsa2026test3 gsa2026test3@inbox.lv 172.71.154.94
    james.smith james.smith@qwestisp.net 120.40.130.70
    dong-liddell dong-liddell@opentravellersrest.click 162.158.167.56
    helpdesk helpdesk@eaglecounty.us 120.40.130.70
    jsmith jsmith@gunbycomm.net 120.40.130.70
    shelliecarstensen shelliecarstensen@bd.dns-cloud.net 77.83.84.216
    jsmith jsmith@forensicrisk.com 120.40.130.70
    john john@thesmallbiztech.com 120.40.130.70
    jsmith jsmith@seii.net 120.40.130.70
    huyenlt huyenlt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    kristinakehado kristinakehado@mail.ru 172.69.134.9
    wavecable wavecable@wavecable.com 120.40.130.70
    jsmith jsmith@seii.net 120.40.130.70
    trangdt1 trangdt1@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    hungvt hungvt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    bernardoveloso.silva05 bernardoveloso.silva05@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    kylephone kylephone@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lolabrinkman lolabrinkman@brookmoor.one 104.22.17.112
    kylephone kylephone@example.com 120.40.130.70
    2806:20:1181::602:63::45 2806:20:1181::602:63::45 120.40.130.70
    huenguyen.us huenguyen.us@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    LindaDiaz info@kupibit.me 45.4.3.61
    barrettclucas barrettclucas@anonmails.de 31.13.191.92
    GXDCoral75804178 josephmiller348049ez@b.indexpulse.app 192.126.197.207
    hueanhn hueanhn@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    joannesalerno joannesalerno@articl.biz 104.22.17.112
    2603:8002:640:91:466:567:8:9 2603:8002:640:91:466:567:8:9 120.40.130.70
    shonda-cortez-6375 shonda-cortez-6375@articl.biz 162.158.167.55
    2001:1:18:946:6035:60:45:025 2001:1:18:946:6035:60:45:025 120.40.130.70
    kylephone kylephone@example.com 120.40.130.70
    kylephone kylephone@example.com 120.40.130.70
    hanx hanx@boostor.com.cn 120.40.130.70
    cyriljoslyn cyriljoslyn@brookmoor.one 172.69.22.186
    trangbt trangbt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    2806:102:12:29:12:862:121:9 2806:102:12:29:12:862:121:9 120.40.130.70
    ivanfaliso ivanfaliso@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    bm bm@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    kylephone kylephone@example.com 120.40.130.70
    hanx hanx@boostor.com.cn 120.40.130.70
    camvn camvn@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    hanx hanx@boostor.com.cn 120.40.130.70
    cewpnggq cewpnggq@microversemail.com 120.40.130.70
    baohg baohg@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    binhnt binhnt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    2603:8003:340:1336:07:735:5:824 2603:8003:340:1336:07:735:5:824 120.40.130.70
    verlabillington2210 verlabillington2210@photo-impact.eu 172.71.159.78
    acc0730 acc0730@tatars-tan-trans.ru 120.40.130.70
    kylephone kylephone@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alert alert@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    hanx hanx@boostor.com.cn 120.40.130.70
    topup topup@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    johanna.luisa.reichelt johanna.luisa.reichelt@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    gxmc gxmc@xmc.pl 135.136.24.3
    melindalui melindalui@emailgsa2.xyz 162.158.167.55
    1c.normal.topup.approver 1c.normal.topup.approver@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    sebritalpo sebritalpo@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    1c.normal.manager 1c.normal.manager@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    yulya.suvorova.2024 yulya.suvorova.2024@mail.ru 162.158.167.55
    2800:320:62:00:599:51:8832:61 2800:320:62:00:599:51:8832:61 120.40.130.70
    1c.normal.admin 1c.normal.admin@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    adrianna.teeple adrianna.teeple@brookmoor.one 162.158.167.56
    rod-zaleski15 rod-zaleski15@7165.seoseo2027thailand.com 172.69.134.9
    savannah-dockery savannah-dockery@query.meetwisetransfer.click 172.69.22.187
    catharinewinchester947 catharinewinchester947@yahoo.com (empty)
    sergan00 sergan00@yandex.ru 178.157.166.145
    poncarl poncarl@seznam.cz 187.14.124.110
    2803:20:8:185:91:26:5:01 2803:20:8:185:91:26:5:01 120.40.130.70
    g.s.aak.k.b1 g.s.aak.k.b1@gmail.com 84.216.198.85
    twitter twitter@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    DeborahSanchez info@kupibit.me 96.89.227.150
    xiomarasoria8568 xiomarasoria8568@now.mefound.com 104.22.17.112
    etourriru etourriru@list.ru 162.158.167.56
    tuyentk tuyentk@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    kylephone kylephone@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70