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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 - 2 Nov 2026 4:02 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,094
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    minhlh minhlh@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    mariusztomasz2 mariusztomasz2@wp.pl 120.40.130.70
    gopronotmore1 gopronotmore1@yandex.ru 217.15.198.161
    CathyBullo nikifor.efimov.2254@rambler.ru 77.232.41.202
    Federico Fghawkin@ucm.es 79.148.159.11
    merchantsupport merchantsupport@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    maivt maivt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    maianhnt maianhnt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    gamtth gamtth@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    ricky-weatherford ricky-weatherford@emailgsa8.xyz 172.71.159.77
    landonjessop.8849 landonjessop.8849@ottopc.com 172.71.154.183
    2001:40:974:256:1:2485:3551:2 2001:40:974:256:1:2485:3551:2 120.40.130.70
    2804:1288:13:970:455:4:3945:3 2804:1288:13:970:455:4:3945:3 120.40.130.70
    2001:08:4:838:1473:10:760:793 2001:08:4:838:1473:10:760:793 120.40.130.70
    204:40:204:600:08:21:8461:81 204:40:204:600:08:21:8461:81 120.40.130.70
    2001:68:5470:26:98:976:540:7 2001:68:5470:26:98:976:540:7 120.40.130.70
    2800:810:88:63:0:569:1:0 2800:810:88:63:0:569:1:0 120.40.130.70
    2001:8003:4248:1800:424:34:491:2 2001:8003:4248:1800:424:34:491:2 120.40.130.70
    t.ops.s.uper.co.m t.ops.s.uper.co.m@gmail.com 104.22.17.113
    loantt loantt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    aliriam aliriam@atomicmail.io 120.40.130.70
    eqicirerifi373gsa65ba0659680f eqicirerifi373gsa65ba0659680f@gmail.com 172.71.154.183
    2804:90:22:00:08:351:249:373 2804:90:22:00:08:351:249:373 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:9775:900:28:21:496: 202:1810:9775:900:28:21:496: 120.40.130.70
    mlonanlout1985 mlonanlout1985@mail.ru 104.22.109.97
    violaskelton8447 violaskelton8447@xsnipersquad.space 172.71.159.77
    svetlanaxopome svetlanaxopome@mail.ru 172.69.23.143
    202:267:00:4140:0:1000:0: 202:267:00:4140:0:1000:0: 120.40.130.70
    200:0:1120:00:9117:228:7876:5672 200:0:1120:00:9117:228:7876:5672 120.40.130.70
    ekaterina.kulikova ekaterina.kulikova@scale.ru 82.148.14.71
    daniilraweha daniilraweha@mail.ru 104.22.17.113
    200:0:1120:00:9117:228:7876:5672 200:0:1120:00:9117:228:7876:5672 120.40.130.70
    huelt huelt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    hipuhenge hipuhenge@mail.ru 172.71.154.183
    juliannecornish6922 juliannecornish6922@ziellpremium.store 172.69.23.144
    sebritalpo sebritalpo@mail.ru 172.71.178.158
    cciso cciso@eccouncil.org 120.40.130.70
    entries entries@blockteam.shop 172.69.23.144
    linhtk linhtk@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    linhth linhth@merchizefactory.com 120.40.130.70
    brainfrantz2023 brainfrantz2023@now.mefound.com 172.71.154.183
    whitney.gollan whitney.gollan@emailgsa6.xyz 104.22.20.61
    duynm duynm@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    a a@example.com 120.40.130.70
    linhntk linhntk@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    linhntk1 linhntk1@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    202:8108:987:700:0:60:9:361 202:8108:987:700:0:60:9:361 120.40.130.70
    WaldoLavoie7 waldolavoie@tmail.cam 104.207.49.180
    liennt liennt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    ripvp4hfn6sf0q ripvp4hfn6sf0q@fldubai.com 120.40.130.70
    user user@example.com 120.40.130.70
    gwenbiggs.4928 gwenbiggs.4928@brookmoor.one 104.22.17.113
    led led@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    lancer lancer@www.example.com 120.40.130.70
    nuser nuser@example.com 120.40.130.70
    hello hello@amazingleadgen.com 120.40.130.70
    a.n.d.r.ej.vi.k.a.v.ik.a a.n.d.r.ej.vi.k.a.v.ik.a@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    Tester hans.pansen@netdesk.io 80.187.84.127
    christincolbert502 christincolbert502@fabrika-gsa.ru 172.71.159.77
    Tester hans.pansen@speap.io 87.122.159.12
    Tester carsten.a.petersen@googlemail.com 80.187.84.127
    200a 200a@oglyadoviy.space 104.28.254.237
    3.mrh.a.hn 3.mrh.a.hn@gmail.com 120.40.130.70
    duongvtk duongvtk@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    birgit.martinelli92 birgit.martinelli92@query.meetwisetransfer.click 104.22.20.60
    pogtipinyu pogtipinyu@mail.ru 172.69.134.8
    youremail youremail@dengage.com 120.40.130.70
    kiettt kiettt@merchizefactory.com 120.40.130.70
    khanhn khanhn@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    feroz.ansari feroz.ansari@cybersafeor.shop 192.42.116.14
    202:8108:987:700:61:6:247:335 202:8108:987:700:61:6:247:335 120.40.130.70
    duongpt duongpt@foobla.com 120.40.130.70
    derrickfelder derrickfelder@spambog.com 172.71.159.77