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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 - 13 Apr 2026 10:40 AM Unique Bot Signatures: 10,000,477
    Bot Name Bot Email Bot IP From
    ojwwtlabvw [email protected] 104.22.20.234
    8u5ddmksd2r [email protected] 104.22.17.126
    ruslanafanasevtv7292 [email protected] 138.219.122.189
    20:001:7173:5:6:6:7:963 20:001:7173:5:6:6:7:963 120.40.130.70
    202:810:121:1600:11:53:674:5212 202:810:121:1600:11:53:674:5212 120.40.130.70
    oliver.blevins [email protected] 172.71.158.68
    202:1810:1:800:17:64:32:633 202:1810:1:800:17:64:32:633 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:9432:900:544:608:48:308 202:1810:9432:900:544:608:48:308 120.40.130.70
    patriciataylor1999sft2 [email protected] 156.241.246.177
    202:8108:8125:100:521:534:5:2 202:8108:8125:100:521:534:5:2 120.40.130.70
    4gerejujjik [email protected] 120.40.130.70
    2600:1702:811:410:42:2:226:9 2600:1702:811:410:42:2:226:9 120.40.130.70
    LeonoreUhr7 [email protected] 209.50.175.190
    charleswilson4244qae2 [email protected] 23.229.52.222
    OtiliaLindrum1 [email protected] 152.89.128.158
    202:03:82:01:18:3664:09:44 202:03:82:01:18:3664:09:44 120.40.130.70
    matt05c819 @warpfans.net 178.128.75.24
    3geretujjiki [email protected] 120.40.130.70
    lonnie-chunggon [email protected] 172.71.154.178
    charlesjohnson1048gf5t [email protected] 69.4.90.23
    SamiraKhan87 [email protected] 172.245.149.67
    202:03:82:01:18:3664:09:44 202:03:82:01:18:3664:09:44 120.40.130.70
    ag.get.8.5hovar.d. [email protected] 172.71.158.69
    maplemadera.701 [email protected] 120.40.130.70
    susanwilson720u65f [email protected] 192.144.25.137
    2604:6000:0:3:10:51:15: 2604:6000:0:3:10:51:15: 120.40.130.70
    202:03:82:01:18:3664:09:44 202:03:82:01:18:3664:09:44 120.40.130.70
    WilfredoDrew63 [email protected] 154.16.69.76
    gfmntjei [email protected] 104.22.17.127
    mattyzharg [email protected] 68.134.101.139
    addiedelissa [email protected] 46.161.6.180
    202:8108:8125:100:521:534:5:2 202:8108:8125:100:521:534:5:2 120.40.130.70
    MabelWenzel5 [email protected] 72.56.191.195
    maisieruss [email protected] 216.26.248.123
    ugrxtxqs [email protected] 172.71.154.179
    KateChelmsford [email protected] 216.158.192.15
    k.arl.os7.6.h.yani.t.o.s. [email protected] 172.71.158.69
    aprilwalker1918 [email protected] 172.71.154.178
    202:020:39:72:3155::6:9 202:020:39:72:3155::6:9 120.40.130.70
    zdxbzopd [email protected] 172.71.154.179
    ka.rlo.s.7.6.hy.a.n.itos [email protected] 120.40.130.70
    ho.k.in.as.e.ani.ka. [email protected] 45.3.51.183
    elizabethdavis9427gi39 [email protected] 23.236.248.83
    lasonyamacgregor [email protected] 172.71.158.68
    susanmiller56556cxi [email protected] 192.126.231.102
    karenbrown99 [email protected] 138.59.206.153
    sarahbrown6537hbj5 [email protected] 102.165.53.55
    cxhskudr [email protected] 64.31.3.126
    harriettgumm422 [email protected] 172.71.158.68
    202:8071:5160:100:5:57:96:58 202:8071:5160:100:5:57:96:58 120.40.130.70
    sarahgarcia3801ex5n [email protected] 66.212.25.44
    Raquel7334 [email protected] 196.198.13.159
    manager202-361-1309ccarter [email protected] 120.40.130.70
    BenJulia4328570 [email protected] 144.48.52.31
    williamsekamatte.davsafaris [email protected] 41.210.143.177
    KayBrandon58 [email protected] 103.221.232.201
    4gerejujjik [email protected] 120.40.130.70
    mmuvmfoi [email protected] 104.22.17.127
    202:1810:1:100:146:2:8314:579 202:1810:1:100:146:2:8314:579 120.40.130.70
    RoseCory67774 [email protected] 196.196.253.94
    KristinWadham7 [email protected] 67.215.251.172
    carlosallen [email protected] 178.171.42.7
    johnjackson2138bfaj [email protected] 23.229.105.41
    deliashowalter [email protected] 162.158.167.134
    joshuamartin24571uil [email protected] 172.69.134.83
    202:1808:70:6:66:576:44:4310 202:1808:70:6:66:576:44:4310 120.40.130.70
    mabelmabel [email protected] 162.158.167.134
    202:03:8:3500:9428:71:23:5539 202:03:8:3500:9428:71:23:5539 120.40.130.70
    alximikkobra9 [email protected] 120.40.130.70
    maksim.pavlov208 [email protected] 172.71.154.179
    lucydugger8881 [email protected] 142.234.202.121
    202:03:8:3500:9428:71:23:5539 202:03:8:3500:9428:71:23:5539 120.40.130.70
    ErnestinaX [email protected] 23.94.230.235
    202:1808:1:52:8061:2010:3490:167 202:1808:1:52:8061:2010:3490:167 120.40.130.70
    alessandro.materazzetti [email protected] 120.40.130.70
    202:1810:829:200:8:988:77:498 202:1810:829:200:8:988:77:498 120.40.130.70
    2001:168:3779:6800:5:694:23:64 2001:168:3779:6800:5:694:23:64 120.40.130.70
    gwendolynshea1955 [email protected] 149.33.14.52
    202:1810:829:200:8:988:77:498 202:1810:829:200:8:988:77:498 120.40.130.70
    ka.rlo.s.7.6h.yanit.o.s. [email protected] 84.239.41.8