Fake BBM messages sent

So I have had many of my contacts on BBM say that I sent them messages with sound clips, random emoticons, and contact requests when I have not. I does not show up in my message log but it does show up in their message log. This is only happening with BBM contacts. How are these being sent under my BBM pin? is it a virus? Thank you

It shouldn't be a virus as there are not yet any known viruses for BlackBerry.
That said, is there any chance that anyone has been playing with your phone? Or did you install any applications just before this all started happening?
If you have any applications that you don't trust, delete them from your phone. In addition, I would strongly suggest putting a password on your phone if you do not already have one.
There are more extreme steps that we can take to attempt to resolve the problem, but let's start by looking at these things.
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I'm having an issue where my BBM messages to one contact are being displayed with a ticked D on my device. However my contact is not receiving any of the messages. The contact can however still message me fine and they all come through without a problem. There is sometimes a slight delay on the messages coming through to me but not very often.
I've tried a hard reset by pulling the battery out of my phone while it is switched on. Infact I have tried this several times and it has not produced any results. Any messages i send to my contact always have a ticked D next to them when they have been sent.
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it's a bug in the new version of BBM, happend to me too.
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This happened to me before. Give AT&T a call and they can reset it.
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