Part of me feels as though I failed in some way as a cybersecurity, privacy advocate, and anti-scammer citizen...

I was at my local bank and couldn't help overhear an older customer ahead of me request from the teller $20,500.00 in cash. He let the teller know he called in advance to make sure he could withdraw the amount and that the bank had it available.

All I could think about was that I hope he has a legitimate personal or business reason to request that much in cash. I really hope he wasn't being scammed in some way. All I could think about was should I have approached him in the bank and just politely as possible ask if he was OK and to make sure he wasn't being taken advantage of... that's a lot of money in cash... good luck old man I hope you're safe...

I also felt that maybe the bank should be asking some questions too...

Just on the record if this comes out as something bad, this was at the Wells Fargo in Serramonte, CA.

Should I have said/done something? How should I have gone about it if so?

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