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# Spoofed crawler: definition | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Spoofed crawler: A request that copies a known crawler's user agent to get treatment meant for the real bot. Read 2026-11-04.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/glossary/spoofed-crawler
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

Glossary

# Spoofed crawler

In short

A request that copies a known crawler's user agent to get treatment meant for the real bot. The Index pairs every row with the way to check it: 17 by IP list, 9 by reverse DNS, 8 by signature. Example: HUMAN found 5.7 percent of traffic presenting an AI crawler or scraper user agent was spoofed.

## Definition

A request that copies a known crawler's user agent to get treatment meant for the real bot.

## Sourced example

HUMAN found 5.7 percent of traffic presenting an AI crawler or scraper user agent was spoofed. [Source](https://www.humansecurity.com/learn/blog/evaluating-ai-agent-trust-humans-agent-trust-levels/), read 2026-11-04.

## How it shows up here

The Index pairs every row with the way to check it: 17 by IP list, 9 by reverse DNS, 8 by signature.

-   [Verification Ledger](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/verification/)
-   [Read agent traffic in logs](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/guides/read-agent-traffic-in-logs/)

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## Sources

-   [humansecurity.com: evaluating ai agent trust humans agent trust levels](https://www.humansecurity.com/learn/blog/evaluating-ai-agent-trust-humans-agent-trust-levels/) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04