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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 - 20 Aug 2026 5:09 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,284
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    uraipan uraipan@live.hcu.ac.th 120.40.130.70
    Maple43750018 michaeljones2193svwe@c.bestvpsfor.xyz 217.60.161.12
    CalebVdn73105359 finlaylynette@solstris.com 144.48.52.169
    lancecalder lancecalder@c.lovepettoys.shop 120.40.130.70
    2804:844:101:2200:652:220:143:662 2804:844:101:2200:652:220:143:662 120.40.130.70
    123 123@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    j1301 j1301@example.com 120.40.130.70
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pgp pgp@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testface testface@example.com 120.40.130.70
    somebody somebody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    anon anon@example.com 120.40.130.70
    revoked revoked@example.com 120.40.130.70
    xzzojvwlxh xzzojvwlxh@rambler.ru 98.159.36.13
    nomail nomail@example.com 120.40.130.70
    dario dario@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user02 user02@example.com 120.40.130.70
    FatimaWickens3 fatimawickens61@brick.pettin.com 144.48.52.254
    guillaume.francois55 guillaume.francois55@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testing testing@example.com 120.40.130.70
    VallieZox8 valliezox54@fiber.pettin.com 102.165.54.226
    alice alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    chuntera chuntera@example.com 120.40.130.70
    terry terry@example.com 120.40.130.70
    bob bob@example.com 120.40.130.70
    donaldmoore9173oh86 donaldmoore9173oh86@gsasearchengineranker.info 31.132.1.224
    em em@example.com 120.40.130.70
    donotuse donotuse@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testtriad1909 testtriad1909@example.com 120.40.130.70
    xzzojvwlxh xzzojvwlxh@rambler.ru 120.40.130.70
    dummy dummy@example.com 120.40.130.70
    john.smith john.smith@example.com 120.40.130.70
    a.koj a.koj@srk.com.pl 120.40.130.70
    user7 user7@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Hilton7064 hiltonvillarreal80@brivex.lentivo.eu 154.21.68.192
    jon jon@example.com 120.40.130.70
    unanadeau unanadeau.1193@mailtech.ro 188.214.227.114
    gunni gunni@example.com 120.40.130.70
    pascal pascal@example.com 120.40.130.70
    email_registration_i5RPSCpEic canyonsundaycv@slappergiraffe.site 199.250.201.100
    noemail noemail@example.com 120.40.130.70
    backuprobot backuprobot@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Alice Alice@example.com 120.40.130.70
    burroughs burroughs@example.com 120.40.130.70
    example example@example.com 120.40.130.70
    malenkayasterva malenkayasterva@bk.ru 120.40.130.70
    MrFussy MrFussy@example.com 120.40.130.70
    derp derp@example.com 120.40.130.70
    example1 example1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    acrowley acrowley@example.com 120.40.130.70
    eatshitanddie eatshitanddie@fuckyou.com 146.19.125.70
    key key@example.com 120.40.130.70
    linettemetzler72 linettemetzler72@nervain.veranta.eu 120.40.130.70
    202:3100:54:00:98:41:58:672 202:3100:54:00:98:41:58:672 120.40.130.70
    ovzbkp ovzbkp@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ShantaeBills78 shantaebills94@act.milkgg.com 191.101.92.83
    robert robert@example.com 120.40.130.70
    ake ake@hcu.ac.th 120.40.130.70
    p1 p1@unblockedgamesup.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    muxoqo muxoqo@mailto.plus 37.214.66.112
    fbtest2 fbtest2@example.com 120.40.130.70
    b b@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    testuserbootstrap testuserbootstrap@example.com 120.40.130.70
    wahid wahid@example.com 120.40.130.70
    deevote2222 deevote2222@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Thomasfco benni.ec.ha.v.ez6.18.6@gmail.com 104.28.246.125
    RachaelBar768 rachaelbar87@only.veauly.com 154.16.69.58
    ElanaHeil18206 joshualopez30885ml3@c.bestvpsfor.xyz 72.57.65.87
    everette.griffith everette.griffith@087b.scalesurge.io 172.241.142.242
    marcipan.testkey1 marcipan.testkey1@example.com 120.40.130.70
    Roxanneflump hauxuljles@rambler.ru 135.181.125.113
    bbstsafrqki bbstsafrqki@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.168
    202:267:98:440:0:5000:0:1 202:267:98:440:0:5000:0:1 120.40.130.70
    Christena0835 christenamark20@dear.mxdood.com 144.48.52.102