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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 - 28 Oct 2026 6:32 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,265
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
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    127.0.0.1.202304 127.0.0.1.202304 120.40.130.70
    lukanovakris lukanovakris@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    95.167.11.182.202304 95.167.11.182.202304 120.40.130.70
    nolanboulger8329 nolanboulger8329@getcode1.com 162.158.167.151
    volh-ahi volh-ahi@mail.ru 91.192.75.179
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    claribeltuckfield2363 claribeltuckfield2363@deajeng.store 172.69.22.77
    l.i.u2.04217 l.i.u2.04217@gmail.com 172.71.154.242
    shariskeens2887 shariskeens2887@naver-mail.com 104.22.21.10
    femmondeel femmondeel@list.ru 120.40.130.70
    Dorothyphype MaydayRoancar@daqb.info 37.34.88.141
    AdalbertoRubeo gabrielpatte@injkrea.xyz 38.154.186.117
    huynt huynt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    sebritalpo sebritalpo@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    svetlanazakipe svetlanazakipe@mail.ru 104.22.20.102
    senbt senbt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
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    huyenntt huyenntt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
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    dolnovam dolnovam@mail.ru 172.71.154.183
    moiseevamariia1993234 moiseevamariia1993234@list.ru 172.71.158.177
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    dudur2000 dudur2000@yopmail.com 120.40.130.70
    sales sales@hornsby.bangeshop.com 161.193.1.98
    kokoreva.veronika.1988.30.8 kokoreva.veronika.1988.30.8@bk.ru 120.40.130.70
    mattia.nicelli mattia.nicelli@sisal.it 120.40.130.70
    vera.vera vera.vera@huwudi.mycam.pro 172.83.254.97
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    nfktatah nfktatah@blackfirsta.com 104.22.17.112
    mario.dellatoffola mario.dellatoffola@sisal.it 120.40.130.70
    100r 100r@oglyadoviy.space 120.40.130.70
    DeniseVonS shantellclint@adult-work.info 151.123.178.27
    stantonmcvay stantonmcvay@now.mefound.com 172.71.159.54
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    huyenltn huyenltn@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    svetlanazakipe svetlanazakipe@mail.ru 172.70.86.119
    204:441:800:229::823:1229 204:441:800:229::823:1229 120.40.130.70
    quyetnv quyetnv@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
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    teravanesov teravanesov@internet.ru 120.40.130.70
    2804:98:392:1700:7557:8:59:607 2804:98:392:1700:7557:8:59:607 120.40.130.70
    3252 3252@sandworthhouse.com 172.71.154.85
    dolnovam dolnovam@mail.ru 172.70.91.153
    xneofilms2710 xneofilms2710@pereskazfilma.site 178.122.78.143
    kathlenefitzgibbon3739 kathlenefitzgibbon3739@hotbird.giize.com 172.71.159.54
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    anton005 anton005@yandex.ru 5.8.179.131
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    margarita.stolyarova.26.05.1995 margarita.stolyarova.26.05.1995@mail.ru 162.158.216.118
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