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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 - 30 Apr 2026 11:22 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,549
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    lethamagana41 lethamagana41@dimaib.elyquin.org 120.40.130.70
    fabkebuggven1980 fabkebuggven1980@mailopenz.com 172.71.158.69
    elliottcroft elliottcroft@1secmail.com 120.40.130.70
    DannKnapp222 gjfvkzhx@fuhrenmail.com 64.31.20.22
    zam.o.kpet.rovsk.y.2.023 zam.o.kpet.rovsk.y.2.023@gmail.com 158.173.155.188
    20:40:05:20:744:76:6:927 20:40:05:20:744:76:6:927 120.40.130.70
    20:5686:867:22:624:4:8:0 20:5686:867:22:624:4:8:0 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:406:600:585:918:3:9572 202:1810:406:600:585:918:3:9572 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    signable-fake signable-fake@example.com 120.40.130.70
    caerian caerian@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alcedo alcedo@example.com 120.40.130.70
    minin minin@example.com 120.40.130.70
    alexey-rrr alexey-rrr@example.com 120.40.130.70
    111 111@example.com 120.40.130.70
    revoked revoked@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dude dude@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john.smith john.smith@example.com 120.40.130.70
    systems systems@example.com 120.40.130.70
    tomasz.chilinski tomasz.chilinski@example.com 120.40.130.70
    miquel miquel@example.com 120.40.130.70
    mark.lopez mark.lopez@example.com 120.40.130.70
    notflack notflack@example.com 120.40.130.70
    arthur arthur@example.com 120.40.130.70
    montybob23 montybob23@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dfsgkjh dfsgkjh@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test0001 test0001@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Test1 Test1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    noname noname@example.com 120.40.130.70
    r.smith r.smith@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Gleetyesomi Gleetyesomi@example.com 120.40.130.70
    sfsfsf sfsfsf@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lol lol@example.com 120.40.130.70
    viktor.morozov835 viktor.morozov835@casinotds.xyz 82.211.3.145
    mrcherrycakes2 mrcherrycakes2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    person1 person1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Test3 Test3@example.com 120.40.130.70
    taburet taburet@example.com 120.40.130.70
    deevote8888 deevote8888@example.com 120.40.130.70
    YoungBob YoungBob@example.com 120.40.130.70
    shadowd shadowd@example.com 120.40.130.70
    info info@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testsig+primary testsig+primary@example.com 120.40.130.70
    boy boy@example.com 120.40.130.70
    sample sample@example.com 120.40.130.70
    jon jon@example.com 120.40.130.70
    slalik slalik@example.com 120.40.130.70
    patriciaborden patriciaborden@tempr.email 172.71.158.68
    another-fake another-fake@example.com 120.40.130.70
    test127 test127@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testtriad1909 testtriad1909@example.com 120.40.130.70
    thomas.tankengine thomas.tankengine@example.com 120.40.130.70
    example example@example.com 120.40.130.70
    temallinkbran1982 temallinkbran1982@mailopenz.com 104.22.20.143
    tyvbjtysyPn tyvbjtysyPn@ventura17.ru 120.40.130.70
    sqhgbanrsk sqhgbanrsk@rambler.ru 79.127.175.65
    333985 333985@gmail.comip 120.40.130.70
    wiirxjkzvs wiirxjkzvs@rambler.ru 79.127.175.65
    202:020:55:91:4502:14:296:1 202:020:55:91:4502:14:296:1 120.40.130.70
    DarenNoisy mferriss@shcreel.com 91.219.150.241
    francescaal-rashid653429kxf francescaal-rashid653429kxf@d.seoautomationpro.com 72.57.70.5
    miras269 miras269@op.pl 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:929:8900:765:380::4 202:1810:929:8900:765:380::4 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:59:4900:995:21:0:6577 202:1810:59:4900:995:21:0:6577 120.40.130.70
    substriphefin1981 substriphefin1981@mailopenz.com 95.214.92.72
    ymbxnwhqjpa ymbxnwhqjpa@problemno.shop 104.22.17.126
    202:1810:948:00:2162:435:815:6600 202:1810:948:00:2162:435:815:6600 120.40.130.70
    ezhileocpz ezhileocpz@rambler.ru 79.127.175.65
    202:1810:580:900:477:195:1735:163 202:1810:580:900:477:195:1735:163 120.40.130.70
    heidi.dreher heidi.dreher@t-online.de 120.40.130.70