# Creating a staged user with an API call

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [April 5, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667 "2018-04-05T19:19:10Z")
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### Author: ![dmccann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dmccann/32/93776_2.png) [@dmccann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmccann)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-staged-user-with-an-api-call/84667/3 "2018-04-06T18:30:54Z")

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I’m trying to avoid creating a full-fledged user account and picking a username. Essentially I want to replicate whatever is happening in the email trigger (‘custom incoming email address’ in the group settings) where the sender’s email address will be ‘staged,’ such that if/when they do register, they’ll be able to claim any messages that were created on their behalf via the email trigger.

Does that make sense? Is there a way to ‘spoof’ an incoming email using API calls? Thanks for all your help!

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