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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 - 15 May 2026 3:21 PM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,756
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    ekaterinadoluna ekaterinadoluna@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    katjaharkins katjaharkins@mailmenot.io 104.22.17.127
    zlfkxuxp zlfkxuxp@sabesmail.com 172.71.154.179
    bogdan6524 bogdan6524@casinotds.xyz 149.202.84.95
    Coolness11 coola2261@gmail.com 2600:387:15:11::2
    xe.d.a.v.iw.o.x.o.6.28 xe.d.a.v.iw.o.x.o.6.28@gmail.com 46.8.110.196
    EttaDuarte5 ettaduarte86@deny.milkgg.com 102.165.53.200
    eli.wates404 eli.wates404@gmail.om 120.40.130.70
    cau cau@xxi-banorte.com 120.40.130.70
    VYWNam558961853 namharpur25@feed.cdfaq.com 23.95.204.251
    irinazavona irinazavona@mail.ru 120.40.130.70
    aprice aprice@usa.com 2607:8:702:500:60:0:4:6803
    josephjones3963eyr1 josephjones3963eyr1@b.budgetthailandtravel.com 172.71.154.179
    aprice aprice@usa.com 2607:8:702:500:06:873:171:5275
    aprice aprice@usa.com 2607:8:702:500:99:242:17:14
    aprice aprice@usa.com 2607:8:702:500:66:3084:716:989
    aprice aprice@usa.com 2607:8:702:500:8049:5328:9573:86
    aprice aprice@usa.com 2607:8:702:500:8034:20:202:83
    elizabethmoore5314v9s3 elizabethmoore5314v9s3@a.verifiedlinklist.com 162.158.167.134
    marcin.bubel marcin.bubel@op.pl 83.27.251.48
    MauraBoettcher7 mh.ar.liposuction.turkey@8.dnsabr.com 144.91.76.133
    1fveeejukiol 1fveeejukiol@anonmails.de 209.50.172.120
    ChristyChelmsfor christychelmsford62@nor.mxdood.com 102.165.54.227
    202:810:128:5300:7839:49:3:46 202:810:128:5300:7839:49:3:46 120.40.130.70
    alblymavelwknvqnrw alblymavelwknvqnrw@gonrr.net 209:2:485:271::39:1
    staceydemaria4062 staceydemaria4062@ssl.tls.cloudns.asia 172.69.23.194
    mncqzrsdhm mncqzrsdhm@rambler.ru 130.49.41.76
    qerjadfgeh qerjadfgeh@rambler.ru 156.243.139.20
    vasilijjakovlevje4821 vasilijjakovlevje4821@rambler.ru 138.219.123.174
    202:1810:91:4400:414:33:15:5 202:1810:91:4400:414:33:15:5 120.40.130.70
    josephbrown6399ltup josephbrown6399ltup@a.verifiedlinklist.com 151.245.177.57
    ha.r.s.i.m.r.a.n...379 ha.r.s.i.m.r.a.n...379@gmail.com 51.38.225.46
    franciscafrancisca36 franciscafrancisca36@valoka.mailbox10.info 104.22.17.127
    a.nn.a.95.k.or.ch.ak a.nn.a.95.k.or.ch.ak@gmail.com 151.240.109.81
    isuyah therizzmen35@gmail.com 2603:900:740:45:105:98:68:23
    WallySpangler wallyspangler82@wild.ehomu.com 181.215.16.238
    BettyeTerrell82 robertanderson80841t40@gsasearchengineranker.com 64.188.5.2
    Athena9914 athena.athena@siyefe.banter.cv 194.110.150.215
    lvalero-arin lvalero-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    fsae fsae@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    202:1808:43:61:6965:409:476:7249 202:1808:43:61:6965:409:476:7249 120.40.130.70
    ysimard-arin ysimard-arin@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    TysonSasaki6598 bettyramos@leantechy.xyz 191.102.131.22
    jonathan.dupont jonathan.dupont@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    MelodeeMuhammad melodee.melodee@sejaki.hawkmail.digital 45.80.107.236
    GayHutcherson46 vanitafoley@kepkat.com 161.123.211.197
    GayHutcherson46 vanitafoley@kepkat.com 103.225.131.174
    GayHutcherson46 vanitafoley@kepkat.com 206.204.28.248
    GayHutcherson46 vanitafoley@kepkat.com 103.225.131.73
    bock bock@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    martial-faith.tshiji martial-faith.tshiji@polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    TrudiHardacre08 sungstolp@anonmails.de 185.149.23.239
    tron tron@step.polymtl.ca 120.40.130.70
    CallieGillen calliegillen29@pound.milkgg.com 102.165.55.238
    stepan.gusev458 stepan.gusev458@casinotds.xyz 120.40.130.70
    202:459:6:0:57:9759:223:220 202:459:6:0:57:9759:223:220 120.40.130.70
    rondabuckley rondabuckley@sedekah-mudah.com 172.71.158.69
    btxtmrcnoi btxtmrcnoi@rambler.ru 79.127.175.17
    xaavmvkkjv xaavmvkkjv@rambler.ru 79.127.175.17
    d-thiedke d-thiedke@t-online.de 172.71.158.69
    rerkgeemong98 rerkgeemong98@mail.ru 162.158.167.133
    oxp99l46a5e oxp99l46a5e@kanyeomg.com 104.22.20.143
    jens.radmacher jens.radmacher@t-online.de 172.71.154.179
    zhzrdmkzuw zhzrdmkzuw@rambler.ru 45.81.136.219