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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 - 21 Aug 2026 11:03 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,500
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    Nellpo212 clarkmonne22@gmail.com 178.128.65.155
    you you@example.com 120.40.130.70
    work work@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    krystle-schenk-goldschmidt krystle-schenk-goldschmidt@healthypplevery.org 66.146.233.190
    nobody nobody@example.com 120.40.130.70
    kengnedzudjompasclaegloria kengnedzudjompasclaegloria@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nelsonhinton891 nelsonhinton891@gmail.com 37.115.189.95
    2001:104:20:00:4949:576:85:2619 2001:104:20:00:4949:576:85:2619 120.40.130.70
    201.16.233.242 201.16.233.242 176.8.89.36
    201.16.233.241 201.16.233.241 31.44.59.224
    RishabVijan rishabravivijan@gmail.com 72.79.123.139
    barbarajackson416z2dx barbarajackson416z2dx@c.bestvpsfor.xyz 94.229.71.113
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    nkvsngrkjmr nkvsngrkjmr@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.168
    lindajohnson7251k51p lindajohnson7251k51p@e.welcometotijuana.com 156.230.199.214
    SeanDundal danieldavis9438b1xl@b.blog-stuff.com 196.51.10.238
    yoy.i.r.ih.uj003 yoy.i.r.ih.uj003@gmail.com 89.110.70.125
    frebqewpppi frebqewpppi@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.41
    xlwxfavabPl xlwxfavabPl@ventura17.ru 62.197.45.179
    ariellandreneau ariellandreneau@skypayreal.online 141.164.86.176
    RobertDit xrusite30@pereskazfilma.site 37.214.192.249
    johndoe johndoe@example.com 120.40.130.70
    shanimccullough shanimccullough@mailtech.ro 89.40.222.254
    eprovbelwha eprovbelwha@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    mada.yogi mada.yogi@wp.pl 120.40.130.70
    doughardesty doughardesty@americancapitalpropertiesllc.com (empty)
    goglop goglop@tropicalites.world 5.45.37.26
    roslyncombes7597 roslyncombes7597@northgablestudio.com 45.95.117.32
    ReaganHateley5 reaganhateley73@put.pettin.com 191.101.114.101
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    blank blank@example.com 120.40.130.70
    2001:8:710:732:00:1:29:2 2001:8:710:732:00:1:29:2 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    LanceLangton59 lancelangton43@slow.pettin.com 191.101.92.218
    DexterBroadbent dexterbroadbent93@fiber.pettin.com 102.165.54.52
    Dannyel mubus@ruutukf.com 66.163.112.120
    tiffanistecker tiffanistecker@byte1.ru 120.40.130.70
    raliwi1981 raliwi1981@rambler.ru 83.217.211.45
    email email@example.com 120.40.130.70
    yanlv yanlv@mail.ru 212.74.196.217
    agustinzinn3 agustinzinn3@korvit.zerivo.eu 120.40.130.70
    p.w.o.e.iur p.w.o.e.iur@gmail.com 172.96.95.138
    GemmaPritchard3 arturoshannan@solstris.com 177.234.143.137
    DeetheLMT161 chelseymelvin6@healthypplevery.org 139.180.225.212
    ValeriaMendenhal valeriamendenhall63@slow.pettin.com 23.95.81.223
    MelisaMoon675 gg@funny-names.net 2602:873:13:1100:0:1:24:98
    DeborahfaF nazarovvadimnl4871@rambler.ru 135.181.125.113
    MelisaMoon675 gg@funny-names.net 77.73.8.105
    corinebrandenburg corinebrandenburg@mailtech.ro 89.45.125.115
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    dorotheaca dorothea.cadell9948@birulangit.dev 107.150.80.180
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    tcrrsuduipi tcrrsuduipi@ventura17.ru 185.192.20.41
    LynetteFison00 lynettelynette62@katulo.magical.surf 162.252.54.183
    juliettegao juliettegao@qq.com 2001:8004:450:978:06:45:1686:469
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    mlctcsmqupi mlctcsmqupi@ventura17.ru 148.222.185.182
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