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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 - 26 Aug 2026 10:41 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,001,623
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    ErwinFrayne567 erwinfrayne22@dixz.org 120.11.96.201
    tleqykpxoOa tleqykpxoOa@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.41
    zirconi81 zirconi81@absroma.it (empty)
    senin.zheka.1980.9.11 senin.zheka.1980.9.11@list.ru 104.22.18.54
    CaroleEckert99 andrewwilliams9311aw1t@e.welcometotijuana.com 196.51.134.83
    brigittephillips brigittephillips@streamboost.xyz 172.69.23.183
    gail.blomfield gail.blomfield@vipcherry.com 120.11.96.201
    katarzyna.klapacz katarzyna.klapacz@o2.pl 120.40.130.70
    ColletteHolloway colletteholloway83@nut.mxdood.com 102.165.54.226
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    colbylees6626 colbylees6626@abidot.me 162.158.167.44
    heribertodon4580 heribertodon4580@anonmails.de 162.158.167.44
    demetria-zotti-pinson demetria-zotti-pinson@healthypplevery.org 104.22.20.143
    orenoren44 orenoren44@xudaze.wisecook.xyz 162.158.167.44
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    juliannemercier juliannemercier@pecinan.net 104.22.18.54
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    SSTXIV SSTXIV@example.com 120.40.130.70
    anonymous anonymous@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ip-172-24-3-244-root ip-172-24-3-244-root@example.com 120.40.130.70
    practiceemail practiceemail@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jon jon@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bkd bkd@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test2 test2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    hing hing@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    example example@example.com 120.40.130.70
    enigma enigma@example.com 120.40.130.70
    chris chris@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test123 test123@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bigbob bigbob@example.com 120.40.130.70
    randomperson randomperson@example.com 120.40.130.70
    maxmustermann maxmustermann@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jrhodes jrhodes@example.com 120.40.130.70
    DaifsEmkuc3 DaifsEmkuc3@example.com 120.40.130.70
    usera usera@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    solvameri solvameri@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ghostrider ghostrider@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jano jano@example.com 120.40.130.70
    warning warning@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john john@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testtriad1909 testtriad1909@example.com 120.40.130.70
    badbitch badbitch@example.com 120.40.130.70
    DakotaWolcott1 dakota-dakota16@bovecu.durovmail.cv 193.56.20.216
    poppy poppy@example.com 120.40.130.70
    christyverran christyverran@pw.epac.to 172.71.154.179
    user01 user01@example.com 120.40.130.70
    franc franc@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    myname myname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pingt pingt@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user02 user02@example.com 120.40.130.70
    someonesemail someonesemail@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bogus bogus@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dummy5 dummy5@example.com 120.40.130.70
    yom01 yom01@example.com 120.40.130.70
    revoker revoker@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test test@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testing testing@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bt-daily-release bt-daily-release@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bigbosspimp bigbosspimp@example.com 120.40.130.70
    amineth amineth@example.com 120.40.130.70
    silkechallis8544 silkechallis8544@b.cr.cloudns.asia 104.22.18.54
    derp derp@example.com 120.40.130.70
    normalpasswords normalpasswords@example.com 120.40.130.70
    noway noway@example.com 120.40.130.70